Thursday, June 19, 2008

why my tag cloud isn't cloudy

Sooooo, yeah. My first tag cloud = FAIL. It's small, doesn't look too cloudy, and doesn't capture the ongoing themes/connections very well. The problem, I think, is that it represents the structure of the blog rather than its contents. This is related to the problem that the cloud generator seems to be pulling only from the post titles rather than the titles + content of posts.

Well, that's why it's an experiment. Interesting failures like this one can illustrate how things like cloud generators work (or how we understand/interpret their workings, which is a theme in Bell's book).

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