I know a lot of you may be going, Grava-what?
Well, there are things called Avatars, which are little pictoral representations of yourself that you use all over the web, be it Facebook, MySpace, forums, etc. Even right here.
We’ve been using MyBlogLog avatars for awhile, but a few of you have run into problems getting them to work correctly or even show up here.
But we’re switching to Gravatar today, which is a much easier and more popular way to control your various Avatars around the net. If you set one up here, you can use it on a ton of other social websites.
This means that a lot of the Avatars some of you had set up for this site wont work anymore. But it’s a quick fix, and one that will be fun if you keep reading all the way to the bottom of this article.
How to get your Gravatar:
- Go to http://en.gravatar.com/site/signup
- Sign up with the email address you USE HERE when you comment (important!)
- Do whatever comes next: usually you confirm the email address and then upload an image.
So the big thing is to make sure you use the email address that you comment with on Pop Critics. Once you do that, all your comments should switch over to your new Avatar!
Now, why is this going to be fun?
Next Wednesday, Jason and I are going to judge which of you has THE BEST AVATAR.
This little contest will last for a few days and require you to comment on the post with the reason you picked the Avatar.
Once the contest closes, Jason and I will check them all out and post the winner a bit later.
The prize? At the moment, it’s respect and an entire blog post dedicated to you and your geeky little Avatar.
So hop to it. You can use this post to comment and see how your avatar looks.
Have fun!
Just for info purposes, I think Gravatar uses 50×50 pics. I’m not sure what size we were using before but I think they were 48×48 so there’s a little bit of a difference. Mine is a little fuzzy. Looks like I might have to do a new one.
I just switched it to 48×48…see how it looks now.
i just signed up and am waiting the email confirmation to set up my pic.
LOL… it tells me to use lower case letters and number only. I AM!!! I clicke don help i verified passweord and iut said “Merge failed, unable to fetch user, please try again” lol… I swear it hates me…
What the heck is the matter with you cap’n?
Where is it telling you to use lower case?
So the upside is i can go back to my original avatar that Mybloglog forced me to change when they merged with Yahoo. Damn that Yahoo.
Just made the change and waiting for the update.
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and then there I am…I forget what a good looking dude I am, thanks Gravatar.
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Nice avatar hot stuff
Not sure if you’ll win the contest with “I’m a good looking guy, so I used my own face for my Avatar” but whatever
I’m still fuzzy…wait, maybe that’s just me…
@ Mike, yeah in reality it’s not a face that wins many contests, I should find one of me drinking from a straw.
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Ouch Scott…ouch
@ Scott - Now, that was funny!
@ Scott LOL!!
BAMMO AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!! (In the voice of young Anakin Skywalker from Episode I, firing up his podracer) ITS WORKING… ITS WORKING!!!!
Now I’m going to have to look into changing it…something dorky, like spiked hair and sunglasses…hmmm…maybe add in a little soul patch…
@Mike/@Scott, I think you need to merge your avatars together into one Mega-Avatar. Spiky, soul patch, straw. Sort of like Power Rangers.
I’ve stuck with Lex of course, because he wants to “Kill the Alien!!!”
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@Mike -now you’re talking!
@RA -like that idea, sort of like Wonder Twins..only geekier.
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OK, I did it. I hope this works
It didn’t work!
Oh, it says to allow 5 to 10 minutes to take effect.
By the way, it also told me to use lowercase letters.
I see it!
You see it? I don’t.
I see it now! That’s Makenzie eating chicken for the first time. She didn’t like it much.
Did she think it tasted like chicken?
From the look on her face it tasted like poo.
testing mine now.
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Mine is finally up!. Meet Smokey aka Buddy, which is what Jina calls him.
I love Buddy!
Nice avatars, peeps !!
You too BIM
I have temporarily changed my Gravatar just to see how easy and fast it really is to change it.
oh, i just read the rules. i picked my grava-what b/c i love my cute husband. and doesn’t love win every contest?
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I picked my gravatar pic because I know you all can’t resist my mullet HOTness!!!
ummm, i take back my reason now…
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OMG, that’s AWESOME Adrian!
LOL
Long Live the Mullet!
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