Sat 3 Mar 2007
Those “tag clouds” used by every “Web 2.0″ website are frigging annoying. Is a ranked list too logical and straightforward for people to use for 2.0 usage?
tag cloud annoying hatred stupid lame urge to kill
"I am not, nor have I ever been, a fish."
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:36pm
You’re not the only one.
It was a cute idea when it first came about (wasn’t it first widely seen in Amazon’s SITB ‘concordance’ stat?) but it’s SO overused now. Also the fact that the positional ordering is either random or arbitrary (i.e. alphabetical) makes it lose a very useful dimension.
March 3rd, 2007 at 10:26pm
I checked your tag cloud
hoping it was a haiku
it was sadly not