I’ve been working with Seyd on updating my blog. He asked me if I wanted to include an avater or better known Gravatar. A Gravatar is an image that appears next to your comments. For example, for some of you who use instant messaging services, you might use little images in your messages.
So, Seyd asked me if I wanted to include the gravatar images in my blog comments. I told him ‘No’. I explained to him that I thought they were exclusionary, that sometimes when people leave comments they feel left out of they don’t have an image and I didn’t want to be exclusionary.
Seyd countered with the fact that the internet, and a blog and comments are all exclusionary. There are people who don’t know how to leave comments, there are people who don’t have access to the world wide web.
This blog(gy) world is exclusionary. And so I said yes to including the Gravatar images. Expect them to come soon. If you would like to understand more about these images check out El Oso‘s entry Get a Gravatar Bobbo.