“The profile includes about two dozen hooks into other web communities, such as Flickr, Second Life and LinkedIn. It also supports OpenID, the project to decentralize logins. Installation includes a simple line of javascript that connects your blog to the larger community, enabling the collection of statistics about readership. There are also configurable widgets to show a blog’s community or readers and top links, which are easily integrated with some of the common blogging platforms (like Typepad, Movable Type and WordPress). For a self-hosted WordPress blog like this one, there are code and instructions available from the WP community to support the MyBlogLog avatars and the community widget. That is a BlogSchmog project for a later day.”