[Sigia-l] Tag clouds and lexical analysis

[Ziya Oz]

Will Parker:

> these _look like_ what we've  all come to know as a 'tag-cloud'

Yep. Therein lies the dilemma. In a lot blogs for example it has become
fashionable to use these for all sorts of things. If the idiom gets general
traction, there's room for confusion: is the tag-cloud a self-rating by the
site purveyor, literally the tagging by the audience, or, as sometimes
happens, a deeper tagging by third party aggregators such as delicious,
flickr, etc. Or even a combination. I wish there was a better visual
differentiation of concordance vs. tagging.

Ziya
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