Apparently I do. I didn’t remember creating it, but when I posted to Faith Sheridan’s Blog an image of myself came up that surprised me. I was not expecting my image to show up just by posting a comment since this was the first time I had commented and certainly had not uploaded an image for use on her site.

I right-clicked on the link to see where the image was coming from and the root URL was http://www.gravatar.com.

After going to the site they define gravatar as: a “globally recognized avatar”. What that means is they provide one location to store your avatar or personal representation of yourself for use on other web sites. The web site has to be enabled to use the gravatar. There is more information on gravatar on wikipedia.

It is a great concept to have one location to store your personal image. If more sites took advantage of the service it would cut down on the number of places you have to upload a new profile picture.

Miscellaneous avatar, gravatar