fun with words! pretty, pretty tagclouds for all

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Anne-Marie

This is the paper Kate and I submitted along with our LOTW presentation, rendered into this gorgeous tagcloud by Wordle, a new tagcloud generator I saw today on Information Aesthetics.  I love tagclouds anyway - but this one lets you play with layout, fonts and colors in a way I’ve never seen before.  You can [...]

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facebook ain’t all that in French

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Anne-Marie

Here are three visualizations of the most popular social networking sites, mapped (and tree-mapped) geographically created by a research student at University College Dublin.  It’s a nice reminder that no matter how many articles I run across about Facebook, Facebook privacy, Facebook Beacon and Facebook applications - Facebook like anything else is culturally situated and [...]

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