Tag clouds - what they are with examples
What is a ‘Tag Cloud’?
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
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This is what one looks like:
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Oh, and the problems with tag clouds - you tend to end up with too many clouds and it becomes overcast!
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud
A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) can be used as a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.They’re normally connected with “Web 2.0” sites – blogs, Wiki’s and the like but have been used more recently as ‘theme analysis’ on speeches (see examples at bottom).
OK, show me one!
This is what one looks like:
I want real life examples to look at … give them to me!
- Mike Riversdale’s photo tag cloud: http://flickr.com/photos/mike_riversdale/tags/
- Mike Riversdale’s bookmarks online: http://del.icio.us/miramarmike
- BBC News Archive tag cloud: http://www.dracos.co.uk/work/bbc-news-archive/tardis/tag-cloud/?t=all
- Technorati – what Blogger are tagging right now: http://www.technorati.com/tag/
- US 2007 State of Union: http://www.jasongriffey.net/wp/2007/01/24/tag-cloud-for-2007-state-of-the-union/
- Bill Gates CES keynote speech: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bill_gates_ces07_tag_cloud.php
- US Presidential speeches (1776 – 2006): http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/
Oh, and the problems with tag clouds - you tend to end up with too many clouds and it becomes overcast!
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