Another step in managing your online identity
Alper might have stumbled upon the perfect solution for managing your personal Avatar. After some discussion i am reasonably satisfied that this is a great solution for now that will be easily updated in a backwards compatible way as needed in the future.
Four Starters - » OpenAvatar - Combining OpenID and hCard
This method requires both a personal webpage and an openid but for a lot of target groups (i.e. geeks) this should not be a problem.