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Lost in a Tag Cloud

by Michael Stephens|Published September 12, 2005

Michael's Tag Cloud

(What can you learn about folks by their Tag Cloud?”)

Anne down in Australia turned me on to this term while we were preparing for my talk with Skype and Jybe. ! I love it. Have you gotten lost in tags yet? Now there clusters too!!

Tag Cloud: A tag cloud is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.

Try these:

In honour of ILI: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/london/clusters/

See anyone you know? http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/librarian/

And here’s a “lusty” one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ipodnano/interesting/

🙂

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