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title: "Comment Icons drawn from author's RSS or FOAF files"
date: 2003-10-01T13:00:56-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2003/10/01/comment-icons/
author: Les Orchard
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# Comment Icons drawn from author's RSS or FOAF files

<p>
This is an interesting thing over at
<a href="http://kasei.evilfunhouse.com/blog/">Life on Mars</a>:
<a href="http://kasei.evilfunhouse.com/blog/archives/2003/09/30/icons">Comment Icons</a>.
</p>
<p>
Post a comment, supply the URL to your blog, and if your
blog has a locatable RSS feed which points to an image,
that image will be displayed next to your comments.  As I've
been known to have <a href="http://www.decafbad.com/blog.cgi/?q=livejournal">a mild obsession with LiveJournal</a>, this reminds
me a lot of the usericons in use there, only distributed
across blogspace, which is what I've wanted to see done for a
long time.
</p>
<p>
All the infrastructure of LiveJournal,
Friendster, and the like could be recast as distributed
feeds and metadata, with smarts on blog servers or
personal clients.  One piece at a time...
</p>
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