Today I decided to take ownership of my blog using Technorati. Most services that require verification of your "ownership" of a site usually require you to place a file on your website. This proves that you have at least file system access to your website and is a good enough verification measurement.

Technorati provided a new way of doing this using OpenID! I thought this was an elegant way of doing this task since it's a much more streamlined process. Technorati is able to do this because I use my website url as my OpenID. I've added two meta tags that allow me to delegate the authentication to myopenid.

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://www.myopenid.com/server" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://scottmuc.myopenid.com/" />

Those meta tags are what allows Technorati to find out where to authenticate me. If I can pass the authentication process, that they have a pretty good indicator that I am the owner of scottmuc.com.