Posts tagged as: cloudSomething about word cloudsPosted on Wednesday, March 1, 2006
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Watching the shifting tag cloudsPosted on Thursday, November 24, 2005
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There is little doubt that tag clouds have caught many people's attention as cool, new, and incredibly geeky. Sort of retro geek, like clunky eyeglass frames. Since I've added tagging to this blog I've been thinking about how to use tags to display patterns on the web in new ways. If you play with code that generates tag clouds, or just think about the problem for a minute, you will see that a cloud loses some value after a great number of posts are tagged. Eventually, the entire distribution includes hundreds to thousands of words and new forms of display are needed. One interesting idea would be to visualize a site's viewership stats as a tag cloud. You could analyse the last 7 days of stats, and build a tag distribution based on the relative frequency of viewing in the archive. The top ten tags could be extracted and listed in order on the site's navbar. You could see how readers are focusing their attention, which would inform future readers. Web 2.0 goes mainstream fastPosted on Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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Man, I'm getting co-opted before I have any opt to co. I knew this Web 2.0 stuff was fun and cool, but it looks like the powers that be get it a little too quickly. The Washington Post now has its own tag cloud connected to an RSS aggregator style feed of their own RSS feeds. They are sitting outside their own site and reading and displaying the content in new ways. That is so Web 2.0. Gag me with a tagPosted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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I admit it. I've fallen for the tagcloud meme myself. I must have said "tagcloud" a dozen times yesterday. But we need to stop now. Eurekster has announced Swicki with the phrase "dynamic buzzcloud of searches." In the ultimate example of marketing people completely embracing tags, the site has a photo of a tagcloud next to the traditional image of a pretty girl. (via Susan Mernit ) |
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While tag clouds are the favorite target of Web 2.0 haters, they are making their way into popular culture.