You may have wondered why, when you comment on some blogs these days, you have a little symbol like the one to the left, displayed with your comment. It is because many blogs allow people to define a gravator (globally recognized avatar), which identifies them when they write a comment. The gravator can be a small photo of yourself, or a company logo, or any other graphic you care to use. If you haven’t set up a gravator you get the default symbol, which is often the little white and grey figure, that reminds me of playing Cluedo as a child, where the playing pieces were a similar shape, but with elongated necks.
There are several sites where you can register your gravator, which is usually free of charge and easy to to do. I used en.gravator.com for mine. Once you have set up your gravator there, it will appear in any comments you make on blogs which support this feature.
How do you use them? What does yours look like?
Just take a look at some of the earlier comments in the blog
(Or this one…)