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I discovered this interesting idea today, see the website at www.gravatar.com
Play the video on the front page, it explains it quite well.

Basically here’s what’s going on with it:  You sign up for a free account, you attach your favorite avatar – image of you or a cartoon character or a symbol or whatever, just so it’s an image – to that email account.  Now any website that supports gravatar (such as any wordpress blog out there) where you register with your email address will show your avatar next to your comments.

Here’s a better explanation, though a bit technical for those not so tech-oriented.

Here’s what my gravatar looks like.  I picked an old image from last winter (2008-2009) of me walking down State street in Madison Wisconsin.  All dressed up for winter aren’t I?  You can upload any picture, it can be cropped or zoomed or edited on the website itself.

Any place which supports gravatars, such as here on my own wordpress blog, any comment I make on the posts will show my gravatar image.  Sign up if you want to see your gravatar on comments in this blog, or any other wordpress blog you visit.

I’ve added a sample comment to this blog entry to show you.