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Gravatars

28 November, 2004 at 10:21 PM
categories: weblogs

"Comments" are one of the most neglected areas of this site, so I am happy to annouce that I finally got around to adding "Gravatars":http://gravatar.com functionality to this site's comment posting. If you have a Gravatar, I'd love to have you post a comment and show it off. If you don't have one, get one... they're a nice way to personalize your comments. I've been admiring both "Casey's":http://nerdle.com/blog work on "Jess's weblog":http://www.frecklegirl.com/blog/archives/000258.php, and "John Oxton's":http://joshuaink.com/blog/68/get-a-gravatar implimentation, and campaign to "register":http://joshuaink.com/blog/72/im-famous Gravatars... it's kind of nice to see _comments_ get their due... I would suspect that the "Six Apart":http://sixapart.com/ people are thinking about adding something like this -- it seems almost ready-made for "TypeKey":https://www.typekey.com/. But, we'll see. *UPDATE*: I noticed today that "Waferbaby":http://www.waferbaby.com/archives/2004/11/29/usericons also added user icons... *UPDATE #2*: "Zooiblog":http://zooibaai.nl/b/archives/2004/11/21/good-gracious/ too

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Ned
wrote on Nov 28, 2004 10:46 PM

Here I am, folks.

Casey
wrote on Nov 28, 2004 10:58 PM

Neat. I’ve been thinking up a few different options for Jess’ site in case maintaining the photos gets out of hand. I’d like to work on some geeky solution (such as crawling the commenter’s url and finding an RSS feed with a site image :) but I think that having her pop in photos for her regulars is working well so far.

It would be cool if people could maintain global avatars in a decentralized way - something less .com and more semantic web….

Ned
wrote on Nov 28, 2004 11:14 PM

I agree… it would be cool to go get the commenters’ favicon from their site (if they had one)… but, even this solution excludes people without domains (or favicons). And, if sites like Kinja have to do this manually, then I’m not confident in my ability to do so.

The thing about Gravatars is that you’re asking someone to go sign up with a centralized site… most people hate that kind of thing (myself included).

So, I donno. It’s something to do on a Sunday evening. Did you get your’s yet?

Jason
wrote on Nov 30, 2004 11:24 AM