Tag Clouds

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Tag Clouds

• Reading the poetic interface

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Jeremy Douglass
Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University
of California San Diego New Reading
Interfaces Modern Language Association, Chicago
2007
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Jeremy Douglass
Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University
of California San Diego http//jeremydouglass.co
m jeremydouglass_at_gmail.com
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Tag clouds are
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Tag clouds areweb navigation interfaces
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Tag clouds arecharacterized bydense clusters
('clouds')of text
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Tag clouds aremade up ofweighted terms (tags)
such as keywords
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"-ogue" Jean Véronis (2005)
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photography tag cloud (Flickr)
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alphabetically?
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bookmark tag cloud (del.icio.us)
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buzzword tag cloud (from wikipedia)
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chaos aesthetics vs.useful interface
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'cloud' vs.weighted list
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flickrfiesta invitation (Flickr)
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spatially distributed text art
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Word News (Benjamin Fischer, 2005)
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The size of each word is proportional to the
number of times it's mentioned in current news
stories.
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Wordnews 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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TextArc
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txtKit
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Context Tree
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Context Tree isa series of animationsof fractal
poems
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Context Tree isa software frameworkfor
creatingfractal poetry
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fractal

• 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
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The Mandelbrot set
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fractal poetry

• complex and self-similar
• visual and spatial
• words or letters are arranged as primitives

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Context Tree renders the story into a word list
with probabilities/ Markov chain
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Gamer Theory2.0

• Gamer Textually

McKenzie Wark (2007)
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Ballad collection of Samuel Pepys
PepysViz Tassie Gniady 2007
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The Libraryof Babel
Babel Spiral

• Jorge Luis Borges (1941)

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The 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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Jeremy Douglass
Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University
of California San Diego http//jeremydouglass.co
m jeremydouglass_at_gmail.com