I follow MIT's Technology Review. It's a pretty decent website for all-things-tech. One thing I don't like, however, is their system for commenting. One of my favorite blogs, The Sensuous Curmudgeon, has a very simple method for adding comments. You type in your comment, give it an e-mail address and the "name" by which you want to be known, and click "Submit". Done. No muss, no fuss.
MIT's system, on the other hand, is far more arduous. First, you have to sign in with an account. They give you the "option" of signing in with your Facebook (blech), Twitter, Google, or Yahoo! account. Since I'm here, I already have a Google account. I signed into that thinking that would then allow me to post a comment. Wrong! No, as shown by the image above, once I've signed in with my Google account, I still have to create a "Technology Review" account. Put simply, WTF!?!?! You want two accounts for anyone to post a comment? I thought MIT was supposed to be the bastion of high tech. Apparently, their website didn't get that memo. Now they're a bastion of high bureaucracy.
Whatever, MIT. Keep your web site. I'll post my comments here.
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