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Searching the clouds

March 21, 2007 – 8:51 am

An interesting article about the proliferation of text clouds, one of many predecessors to the ubiquitous tag cloud. Here at education.au we’re developing tag cloud functionality as another discovery mechanism for large resource repositories, so it’s exciting to see them gradually appearing in a variety of applications around the web. For the […]

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Folksonomies vs Melvil Dewey

February 8, 2007 – 10:23 am

Searching through the non-fiction shelves of my local library is now just a tad more annoying than it used to be since perusing the results of a December 2006 survey outlining the demographics of ‘taggers’ and accompanying interview with David Weinberger.
In a forthcoming book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, David […]

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