History A Cloud of Words
posted by on April 11 at 14:26 PM
Just found this on this fascinating blog about the hows, whats, whys, and whatthefucks of online tagging. It may sound boring, but people creating their own taxonomies is pretty radical. You create the hierarchy or refuse to. You ascribe meaning or deny it. You shhh those rowdy kids in the corner or you join them. We’re all librarians now.
And as for the Presidential speech tag cloud (what an ingenious visual metaphor, by the way), you can scroll through the years and watch the shifting patterns of light and shade, slavery and territory, war and economy, family and debt, strength and freedom. It’s an almost-visceral experience that left me curiously moved.
check out Todd Bishop's Cloud Tag on MSFT over at the PI. http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/tags/
"this fascinating blog"????
i'm behind the curve obviously
so i wikipedia for 'tagging'
there are soooooo many cool links for it -graffiti, T alented A nd G ifted *moi*NOT, german word for Day, achrochordons, surveillance i.e. RFID, etc.-
except for what i think your tagging means
so i tried the link and hoped to get an idea
unfortunately, this 'fascinating' blog is kind of yawner.
ya know, i appreciate ge*ks, enough to actually not even say that word, but this inbred type of computer skills/vocabulary is not for this nonge*k
i wonder if Henry Darger would like You're It - tagsonomy? god help us
those little green boxes next to the titles of your blog posts? those are tags. you should be tagging posts with more than one tag, you should let us browse by tags, and we should have an rss feed of each tag. viaduct would be a good tag. the bus stop would be a good tag. architecture would be a good tag. and a feed for each would be a good idea.
welcome to Web 2.0.
get used to these now fascinating, soon annoying metadata clouds all over your search engines and web pages.
chris, i don't know who you are, but your post just made me like you. a lot. i also think it is exciting to watch how taxonomies evolve. i will be your comment friend.
chris, i'm sure you're a nice guy,
and i hope you and kt develop a great cyber friendship that blossoms into
love
but that brown square graphic
you provided on your post is typical
minimal grotesque computer insanity
i don't even like radiohead's art
on 'hail to the thief' which is the same idea, but it's a hundred
times more interesting, and they have
great music to back it up
What I find fascinating is the War is in every single one of those to vary degrees, but I didn't see any mention of peace until 1944, and then it's "peacetime." I didn't look through it frame by frame, so I'm sure I missed some, but the overall trend is certain.
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