Title: Tag Clouds
1Tag Clouds
- Reading the poetic interface
2Jeremy Douglass
Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University
of California San Diego New Reading
Interfaces Modern Language Association, Chicago
2007
3Jeremy Douglass
Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University
of California San Diego http//jeremydouglass.co
m jeremydouglass_at_gmail.com
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6Tag clouds are
7Tag clouds areweb navigation interfaces
8Tag clouds arecharacterized bydense clusters
('clouds')of text
9Tag clouds aremade up ofweighted terms (tags)
such as keywords
10"-ogue" Jean Véronis (2005)
11photography tag cloud (Flickr)
12alphabetically?
13bookmark tag cloud (del.icio.us)
14buzzword tag cloud (from wikipedia)
15chaos aesthetics vs.useful interface
16'cloud' vs.weighted list
17flickrfiesta invitation (Flickr)
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19spatially distributed text art
20Word News (Benjamin Fischer, 2005)
21The size of each word is proportional to the
number of times it's mentioned in current news
stories.
22Wordnews focuses on systematics for the
interpretation and visual display of textual
information. As a first example the current news
headlines of several leading international news
sources are being analysed and displayed. The
output tries to visualise meaning according to
calculations on the quantitative occurrence of
words. Like a seismograph the application
registers amplitudes and eruptions in current
world-news headlines.
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29TextArc
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34txtKit
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38Context Tree
39Context Tree isa series of animationsof fractal
poems
40Context Tree isa software frameworkfor
creatingfractal poetry
41fractal
- fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided
in parts, each of which is(at least
approximately)a reduced-size copy of the whole.
Benoît Mandelbrot
42The Mandelbrot set
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44fractal poetry
- complex and self-similar
- visual and spatial
- words or letters are arranged as primitives
45Context Tree renders the story into a word list
with probabilities/ Markov chain
46Gamer Theory2.0
McKenzie Wark (2007)
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48Ballad collection of Samuel Pepys
PepysViz Tassie Gniady 2007
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50The Libraryof Babel
Babel Spiral
51The Library of Babel
Those who judge it to be limited postulate that
in remote places the corridors and stairways and
hexagons can conceivably come to an end -- which
is absurd. Those who imagine it to be without
limit forget that the possible number of books
does have such a limit. I venture to suggest this
solution to the ancient problem The Library is
unlimited and cyclical.
Borges (1941)
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53Jeremy Douglass
Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University
of California San Diego http//jeremydouglass.co
m jeremydouglass_at_gmail.com