on Apr 19th 2008 at 6:00 am blogging

A Call To Action

OK, I know some of you may be wondering about those little gravatar thingies, and why yours keeps showin’ up as a “questionable figure” instead of your own wonderful self. It almost seems as if I’m hoggin’ the comment box to myself sometimes.

Yeah, well here’s the thing… I’m using a gravatars plugin, and apparently, it’s still something of an “imperfect science”, so to speak.

Now, the idea behind gravatars was to let folks have a sortof “universal” image available to identify themselves as they traversed the ‘net. The images in the MyBlogLog widget are good examples. Anyway, this little plugin is supposed to pick up the ones from MBL or, alternately, one you’ve registered at Gravatar.com.

Well… as you can see, it doesn’t seem to be picking up anything at all from MBL! I have my top people researching it (which is code for I think you’re out of luck, Bubba!), but at least I can offer a solution: go to gravatar.com and register an avatar. It’s free, it’s easy, and shouldn’t take more than a few minutes at most. Then, anytime you hit a site that uses them, well there ya are, in all your radiant glory!

So, if you’re like me (and if you’re really like me, then sincere condolences are in order) and are a bit frustrated about it, well, there’s your answer.

Personally, I’d appreciate if you would – I’d love to see someone else’s face there besides mine! So I’m askin’. Please?

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  1. # Joanna Youngon Apr 19th 2008 at 7:24 am

    Okay, let’s give this a try. I did sign up for gravatar a week or so ago (from someone else’s site) but whoops! Realise I didn’t confirm my image. I’ve clicked something else so with any luck my pic will appear here now…

    Joanna

  2. # Joanna Youngon Apr 19th 2008 at 7:25 am

    Maybe the technology needs more time… :-)

  3. # Debbie Yoston Apr 19th 2008 at 8:06 am

    Is it fixed? I see Joanna’s. Guess I’ll find out in a minute!

  4. # Robert Hruzekon Apr 19th 2008 at 1:13 pm

    @Joanna – well, not yet… but I have, er, “high” hopes… :-\

  5. # Robert Hruzekon Apr 19th 2008 at 1:13 pm

    @Debbie – Hey! I can see you and the little one! Looks like we have a winner! :-)

  6. # Tullyon Apr 19th 2008 at 2:20 pm

    It’s set to currently pull avatars from Gravatar.com

    (When I get home tomorrow I’ll upgrade the plugin so it’ll also accept avatars from an OpenID account)

  7. # Joanna Youngon Apr 19th 2008 at 4:14 pm

    Wow! I’ve arrived!

  8. # Joanna Youngon Apr 19th 2008 at 4:16 pm

    And it works retrospectively too! Now my picture’s showing up all over the zone! What have you started Robert? :-)

  9. # amypalkoon Apr 20th 2008 at 6:19 am

    I registered for gravatar a while ago, which is probably why my mug always shows up next to my comments here!

  10. # Robert Hruzekon Apr 20th 2008 at 10:03 am

    It’s always good to see your mug, Amy.

  11. # Jean Browman--Cheerful Monkon Apr 21st 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Well, I signed up for my gravitar, let’s see if it works!

  12. # Jean Browman--Transformign Stresson Apr 21st 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Congratulations and thank you!

  13. # Jean Browman--Transforming Stresson Apr 21st 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Oops! I was so excited I couldn’t spell my tag line correctly.

  14. # Robert Hruzekon Apr 21st 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Hey, Jean; don’t worry – we KNOW who you are!

    Wow! Finally! I see all y’all’s smiling faces! Hooray!

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