Wordclouds.com is a free online word cloud generator and tag cloud generator, similar to Wordle. Create your own word clouds and tag clouds. Paste text or upload documents and select shape, colors and font to create your own word cloud. Wordclouds.com can also generate clickable word clouds with links (image map). Save or share the resulting image.
Seit WordPress 2.3 gehren die Tagging-Funktion zum Lieferumfang einer WordPress-Installation. Um die Tags anzuzeigen gibt es mittlerweile eine Reihe von Template-Tags.Z.B. wp_tag_cloud (tags: wordpress tagcloud)
Word clouds are a fun way to show words, where the most important ones are bigger than the others. Discover, generate and share word clouds from any text with WordItOut! Now you can get them as custom gifts too!
This cool tag cloud is from Wordle. Clicking on it takes you to the Wordle site. The image here is generated out of the text of a paper I wrote on Ranciere. Also, here's some advice: always save your post even if you think you already did. I just wrote a long post on tag clouds and lost it. I'm pretty bummed but hope I can retrieve the ideas. Of course, the one that got away was brilliant, original, and insightful. This one can only pale in comparison to the one that was lost. Tag clouds are symptoms of the decline of symbolic efficiency. The meaning of words is not at stake in tag clouds. Meaning is replaced by frequency, proximity, and duration. Which words are repeated the most and in what combinations? The combination of these elements determine intensity--if something is only present once, it doesn't count, isn't counted. Words matter, words and themes. Not sentences and not stories or narratives. People always get the story wrong, anyway. Tag clouds exemplify this loss of a space of meaning, of a language constituted out of sentences that are uttered in contexts according to rules that can be discerned and contested. What's lost? The ability to distinguish between contestatory and hegemonic speech. Irony. Tonality. Normativity (how can there be an ethics of the address if the words are not part of an address, if they are extracted from their position within speech acts to become artifacts and toys?). Critique. The terms...
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A. Rivadeneira, D. Gruen, M. Muller, and D. Millen. CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 995--998. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (May 2007)
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