Tom Werner started a quite fun new service for webloggers: Gravatar. The word stands for globally recognized avatar and actually tries to provide a fun and simple solution for tagging weblog comments with an avatar, a little icon representing the person commenting.
To quote the well-written FAQ:
Think of gravatar.com as a dictionary that associates email addresses and avatar images. When you leave a comment on a weblog and provide your email address, the weblog can use your email address to look up your avatar. Since the dictionary is available to anyone, a single avatar image can represent you across many different weblogs.And since I think, this is quite a good idea, this weblog here is now gravatar-enabled.
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