My daughter Lauren (age 10) took a web cartooning class this week, and this is her final project. So here’s a little levity to add to this usually serious blog.

On this blog (and many others), if you post a comment your personal avatar will automatically accompany your comment — assuming that you have an avatar assigned to your e-mail address using either Gravatar or MyBlogLog (both free services).

Many of you have yet to assign yourselves avatars. These can be comic characters (as I use) or graphic illustrations, or photos (of yourself or some object). So how about it? I’d love to see more photos and illustrations accompanying your comments!

(And I have some personal interest in this, since one of the projects I’m working on will let people create personal avatars. That’s not ready yet, but there are plenty of other options for creating avatars of yourself; or just use a photo.)

Don Asmussen’s video of the Making of the Phil Bronstein Blog Logo is brilliant!

And it was fun seeing some faces I recognize from my days (quite long ago now) at the San Francisco Chronicle. Apparently some folks had the sense to stick around and turn down those tempting buy-out offers that came around every once in a while. (Not so for me; I accepted one of those in 1993.)

And Bronstein’s blog logo really is outstanding: