Dave wrote:
> [snip]
> In that case it makes more since to call the field "about" instead of
> "bio" -- it's a bit of text about the blog, which could be used as a
> bio or something else. And instead of avatar how about "image" or
> "icon"?
> 

I for one would definitely like to see a blog image option.  The about
field is handled just fine by the current "description" field.

> It would definitely be useful to also have those fields in the user
> object or a new user-profile object, that way group blogs like The
> Aquarium could include an about page that automatically lists each
> blogger in the blog and a photo of each and is automatically updated
> as member hip in the group blog changes -- you won't be able to do
> that with one bio and avatar for the whole blog.
> 

I've been stewing over a design for a "profile" provider component.  The
default profile provider would pull user profile information from the
DB.  Other implementations can pull profile data from other sources
(e.g. an LDAP repos or our Lotus Connections Profiles component).

- James

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