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Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 08/14/07 22:38
dorayme wrote:
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> In this case there are just a few links. Many tidier link lists
> would be as good. Where there are a real lot, it looks messy and
> hard to find things. Honestly, what is the argument for them
> besides that some big companies use them?
>
humm.. I see tag clouds as another metanavigational aid. Usually tag
clouds represent a semantic-map over a specific topic. They are indeed
messy as this is the keypoint in a tag cloud: you have a lot of various
words that are related with each other. The strength of the relationship
is usally marked by the position, weight or size of the words. They can
help you to get the most related topics out of a search criteria, and
showing you all loosely related information at the same time, and they
do help you by widdening your search through a special topic of
interest. Tag clouds are not only restricted to words only, but can also
be represented by images.
Libraries and encyclopedia are using tag clouds in order to provide a
different and probably more efficient overview over a certain topic.
bernhard
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