One of the advantages is that anyone reading your comment on, say, a blogspot blog, will have a link straight back to your own home on livejournal.
You can't use it just as the livejournal username (ie "rhythmaning") when you are using that as an openid. You need to enter as the openid "rhythmaning.livejournal.com" (without the quotes) so the site knows who your openid provider is. When you hit enter you'll briefly be sent to livejournal to verify that you are indeed you: the point is that your own openid provider, in this case lj, does the verifying rather than the site on which you are posting. It's all fairly seamless and automagic.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-06-22 02:33 pm (UTC)You can't use it just as the livejournal username (ie "rhythmaning") when you are using that as an openid. You need to enter as the openid "rhythmaning.livejournal.com" (without the quotes) so the site knows who your openid provider is. When you hit enter you'll briefly be sent to livejournal to verify that you are indeed you: the point is that your own openid provider, in this case lj, does the verifying rather than the site on which you are posting. It's all fairly seamless and automagic.