Clouds, tags, del.icio.us, etc.
Is anybody out there using del.icio.us to generate resource lists and/or link lists? Word clouds for representing information?
I'm a devoted user of del.icio.us (as the user OnlineCourseLady and as Aesopus), and one of the things del.icio.us is famous for of course is tag clouds (along with all kinds of nifty tagging stuff). And I just recently learned about Wordle, a terrific word cloud generator that will take text OR RSS OR del.icio.us user accounts and generate tag clouds - with customizable layouts, color palettes, all kinds of great options.
Below is an example of the word cloud generated for the What Do You Know About OU? page over at Public Affairs. You can click on the image for a larger view:
Is anybody else out there playing around with tagging as a means of online content creation and/or with word clouds as a means of representing information...??? :-)
I'm a devoted user of del.icio.us (as the user OnlineCourseLady and as Aesopus), and one of the things del.icio.us is famous for of course is tag clouds (along with all kinds of nifty tagging stuff). And I just recently learned about Wordle, a terrific word cloud generator that will take text OR RSS OR del.icio.us user accounts and generate tag clouds - with customizable layouts, color palettes, all kinds of great options.
Below is an example of the word cloud generated for the What Do You Know About OU? page over at Public Affairs. You can click on the image for a larger view:
Is anybody else out there playing around with tagging as a means of online content creation and/or with word clouds as a means of representing information...??? :-)
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Permalink Reply by mario on -
i use delicious, although there is not firefox 3 plug-in for the bar yet :-/ (not one i have found anyways), we have wanted to use tag-clouds for large groupings of links (http://www.ou.edu/web/landing/currentstudents.html). I think its a very effecting means of grouping chunks of links. It basically would take the guess work out of link hierarchy and let the users decide importance, which im all for!
That tag cloud graphic is money! I love it...
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Permalink Reply by Laura Gibbs on
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Hi Mario, I am such a big fan of del.icio.us - for you guys who have programming skills, I know they have an API and JSON and all kinds of ways for you to extract your del.icio.us tags and do all kinds of things with them in addition to the standard presentations available at the del.icio.us website itself.
I've got about 1000 links that I organize for my students using del.icio.us - I'd never be able to manage that with a static website. I love the way I can link to tag combinations that allow me to create 'webpages' which contain exactly the links I want (for example, here are the GrecoRoman Books Online I recommend for research use in my mythology class). That way, as I find new good resources online that I want to recommend to my students, I just tag them, and - presto! - they appear on the del.icio.us webpage I have linked to throughout my course materials and class assignments.
About Firefox3, I read about their Firefox3 version, but since I haven't upgraded myself, I haven't tried it (there are a few addons that I really really like that are not available for Firefox3 yet; I sure hope they become available by the time school starts so I can upgrade in time for the new semester). :-)
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