Welcome to Friday. As our treat to you today (besides the usual awesomeness this blog provides), we’ve upgraded our commenting avatar system. As many of you know, we’re linked with Gravatar.com which is a system that allows anyone who wants to, have their commenting email address associated with a specific avatar or identifying image. Any blog at which you post your thoughts and use that specific email address when commenting and is linked with Gravatar.com will display your identifying image so that other readers will easily and quickly be able to recognize you.

We’ve now taken this little trick a step further. For those that have recently updated their Gravatar.com profile, it is now possible to gather more information about a particular commenter just by rolling your pointer over their image. Such information may include more images, links to their social networking profiles or other frequented sites, personal descriptors, geographic location, messaging accounts or other information. Of course this information is completely voluntary and no information you don’t want displayed will show up. But it is a slick way of bringing our readers together ever closer and providing a more interactive community. Hope you like!

For this to take effect, update your info over at Gravatar.com and check out this useful feature in any of the comments on this site hence forth. Make sure your Gravatar account is not set to “private.” As a side note, if you find any glitches or would like to make any other comments or suggestions for this site, by all means contact one of the admins and let them know about it. We obviously want to fix any bugs asap and we’re always looking to improve your experience if we can.

Cheers and have a great weekend!