...basically it's an avatar of your choosing that follows you around Gravatar supporting blogs, websites etc.. kinda cool really But in all honesty Gravatar sums it up best themselves...

"A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?"

I'd seen quite a few Gravatar enabled blogs but I rarely posted to them...I'm quite behind the times when it comes to blogs and blogging... you see I've only just recently got around to registering so that I can comment on my friends blogger.com accounts... only to then be told that I could have been using my Google account all along all that aside, I had no need for a Gravatar really.. I figured, and had read, it was only for blogs... for sure I wanted one, but I wasn't convinced that I would ever get to use it a great deal.. and then I figured that by the time I did get to use it I would have forgotten which of my... numerous ...email accounts I would have associated it with so it all went by the by and got dumped in the "too much brain function required" basket... that is until I got JomComment (my article here) which is Gravatar friendly... and that is until I released it was for more than just blogs..... so off I trotted to grab an avatar.. well a Gravatar...

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