Tag Clouds Reading the poetic interface. Jeremy Douglass Researcher, Software Studies Initiative...

Tag clouds are

Tag clouds areweb navigation

interfaces

Tag clouds arecharacterized by

dense clusters ('clouds')of text

Tag clouds aremade up of

weighted terms (tags) such as keywords

"-ogue" Jean Véronis (2005)

photography tag cloud (Flickr)

alphabetically?

bookmark tag cloud (del.icio.us)

buzzword tag cloud (from wikipedia)

chaos aesthetics vs.

useful interface

'cloud' vs.

weighted list

flickrfiesta invitation (Flickr)

spatially distributed text art

Word News (Benjamin Fischer, 2005)

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.

TextArc

txtKit

Context Tree

Context Tree isa series of animations

of fractal poems…

Context Tree isa software framework

for creatingfractal poetry

— Benoît Mandelbrot

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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.

The Mandelbrot set

QuickTime™ and aAnimation decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

fractal poetry

• complex and self-similar

• visual and spatial

• words or letters are arranged as primitives

Context Tree renders the story

into a word list with probabilities/ Markov chain

Gamer Theory2.0 … Gamer Textually

McKenzie Wark (2007)

Ballad collection of Samuel Pepys

… PepysViz

Tassie Gniady

2007

The Libraryof Babel

Jorge Luis Borges (1941)

… Babel Spiral

The Library of Babel

— Borges (1941)

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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.


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