Comments on: Make your own blog and tweet clouds http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:44:00 -0700 hourly 1 By: Robert S. Robbins http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-717 Robert S. Robbins Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:37:25 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-717 I recently created a YouCloud web application to generate tag clouds based on the tags a YouTube user has used in all their videos: http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/YouCloud.aspx I could also create tag clouds based on any information made available by XML or JSON data feeds. I recently created a YouCloud web application to generate tag clouds based on the tags a YouTube user has used in all their videos:

http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/YouCloud.aspx

I could also create tag clouds based on any information made available by XML or JSON data feeds.

]]> By: TweetCloud Tag Clouds | Engage in PR http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-707 TweetCloud Tag Clouds | Engage in PR Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:30:17 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-707 [...] with our good friend Twitter. Bryan Person has a good summary (he was writing based on a post from Sam Lawrence) and his own Twitter Tag Cloud, which you can make at TweetClouds. Here is [...] [...] with our good friend Twitter. Bryan Person has a good summary (he was writing based on a post from Sam Lawrence) and his own Twitter Tag Cloud, which you can make at TweetClouds. Here is [...]

]]> By: Simon Carswell http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-702 Simon Carswell Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:42:55 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-702 These are nice applications, but don't use the concept of a tag in the right way, IMO. A tag should be chosen by a human to be of maximum use and to aggregate effectively into a folksonomy. It should denote a descriptive summary word, ie a classification, not just a word that happens to appear (even frequently) in the text. These are nice applications, but don’t use the concept of a tag in the right way, IMO. A tag should be chosen by a human to be of maximum use and to aggregate effectively into a folksonomy. It should denote a descriptive summary word, ie a classification, not just a word that happens to appear (even frequently) in the text.

]]> By: BryanPerson.com http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-686 BryanPerson.com Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:28:54 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-686 <strong>Tag clouds: Visually charting our written content...</strong> The value of tag clouds is that they give us an excellent visual representation of the words, phrases, or tags that we’re using most often. You’ll often see them on blog sidebars, or on folksonomy-built sites such as Flickr and Delicious. M... Tag clouds: Visually charting our written content…

The value of tag clouds is that they give us an excellent visual representation of the words, phrases, or tags that we’re using most often. You’ll often see them on blog sidebars, or on folksonomy-built sites such as Flickr and Delicious.
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]]> By: thaumata http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-679 thaumata Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:11:15 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-679 Say what you will about Livejournal, but they've given me a tag cloud for YEARS now. :) It's too bad it's all going downhill fast since they sold, despite their all star (never consulted) board. Say what you will about Livejournal, but they’ve given me a tag cloud for YEARS now. :) It’s too bad it’s all going downhill fast since they sold, despite their all star (never consulted) board.

]]> By: TagCrowd - Not another TweetClouds « The Broad Brush http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-673 TagCrowd - Not another TweetClouds « The Broad Brush Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:22:50 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-673 [...] Lawrence over on GoBigAlways shared the coolest thing in a recent blog post. He tells about TagCrowd. Where TweetClouds creates a cloud of Twitter words, TagCrowd makes a [...] [...] Lawrence over on GoBigAlways shared the coolest thing in a recent blog post. He tells about TagCrowd. Where TweetClouds creates a cloud of Twitter words, TagCrowd makes a [...]

]]> By: TagCrowd - Not another TweetClouds « The Broad Brush http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-672 TagCrowd - Not another TweetClouds « The Broad Brush Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:47:16 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-672 [...] tags, Tweetclouds Sam Lawrence over on GoBigAlways shared the coolest thing in a recent blog post. He told us about TagCrowd. Where TweetClouds creates a cloud of Twitter words, TagCrowd makes a [...] [...] tags, Tweetclouds Sam Lawrence over on GoBigAlways shared the coolest thing in a recent blog post. He told us about TagCrowd. Where TweetClouds creates a cloud of Twitter words, TagCrowd makes a [...]

]]> By: What am I talking about? | AccMan http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-670 What am I talking about? | AccMan Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:41:21 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-670 [...] Sam Lawrence looks at this as well. Earlier, he created my one and two-word tag cloud based on this blog. Again some interesting combinations: [...] [...] Sam Lawrence looks at this as well. Earlier, he created my one and two-word tag cloud based on this blog. Again some interesting combinations: [...]

]]> By: Todd Jordan http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Todd Jordan Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:33:19 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-667 Tag clouds give an interesting perspective on what we're talking about. Weighting of words with size and bold gives an even richer feel to what is seen. I gave Tag Crowds a try on my blog and it ran fairly quickly, though only choosing 50 'tags'. Running Tweetclouds was slower but didn't effectively grab too many more tags. See my Tweetclouds here - http://tinyurl.com/5j6z97 While I change what I write on Twitter or the blog based on the tag cloud? Not immediately. I did realize I @ message significantly more than straight messages. That might be something I look at. On the plus side, Tag Crowds shows I tag a lot of blog posts 'social networking'. Perhaps rethinking the variety of tags might be in order. Thanks for pointer to Tag Crowds. Tag clouds give an interesting perspective on what we’re talking about. Weighting of words with size and bold gives an even richer feel to what is seen.

I gave Tag Crowds a try on my blog and it ran fairly quickly, though only choosing 50 ‘tags’. Running Tweetclouds was slower but didn’t effectively grab too many more tags. See my Tweetclouds here – http://tinyurl.com/5j6z97

While I change what I write on Twitter or the blog based on the tag cloud? Not immediately.

I did realize I @ message significantly more than straight messages. That might be something I look at. On the plus side, Tag Crowds shows I tag a lot of blog posts ’social networking’. Perhaps rethinking the variety of tags might be in order.

Thanks for pointer to Tag Crowds.

]]> By: Rick Turoczy http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Rick Turoczy Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:48:21 +0000 http://gobigalways.com/make-your-own-blog-and-tweet-clouds/#comment-663 Totally agree this functionality be built into blogging software. And, it should be built into Web analytics software, too. Can you imagine your tag cloud of content versus your readers' tag cloud of interest? Oh my. That would be incredibly valuable way to visualize what you like to say versus what people like to read. On a side note, I also wanted to mention that a personal favorite of mine, TweetStats, has recently added a tweet cloud tab, as well. Totally agree this functionality be built into blogging software. And, it should be built into Web analytics software, too. Can you imagine your tag cloud of content versus your readers’ tag cloud of interest? Oh my. That would be incredibly valuable way to visualize what you like to say versus what people like to read.

On a side note, I also wanted to mention that a personal favorite of mine, TweetStats, has recently added a tweet cloud tab, as well.

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