Monday 22 March 2010

Tag cloud becomes a motif

The tag cloud becomes a motif. BBC News 19 February 2010.
It is not necessary to have the concept of a tag cloud or word cloud to think of scaling words in relation to the number of their appearances in a text, but you can be pretty sure that the look of this display behind Gordon Brown is symptomatic of a fashion derived from the current presence of tag clouds on so many websites.

Presumably it is not really based on analysis of a text, but just represents the owners’ perception of the importance of each of the terms.

A gallery of tag clouds is here [external link].

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