[Sigia-l] Tag Clouds in Print

[Carsten]

Hi,

Am 06.01.2007 um 02:25 schrieb Eric Scheid:
> you left out this pair of scenarios:
>
> Scenario #4
>   A     1
>   B     1
>
> Scenario #5
>   A     10
>   B     10
>
> with the point being this question: would they be rendered the same?

If the scenarios belong to the same cloud with different time:  of  
course.

If the scenarios belong  to different clouds: doesn't matter.

Aditionally, most clouds don't live in contextual freespace. Consider  
the following labels:
- What's hot
- Most popular tags
- Recent topics
- User's picks
They give some hint to interprete the cloud without elaborate  
explanation.

The label in the movietally example is especially useless: a hint  
about that these tags are user-given would clarify a lot.

Another example: the spiegel tag cloud. A manually edited cloud by  
"the spiegel documentalists", reresenting  "what's important in  
spiegel online today".  See http://www.spiegel.de/spiegeldigital/ 
0,1518,444591,00.html for the rather elaborate explanation (german  
only)...
Do you consider this useful? For an online magazine with editors, it  
seems logical to edit the tag cloud, too. Or is a manually edited  
cloud a violation of the user-generation principle?

Carsten