{"id":151,"date":"2006-03-09T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T13:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2006\/03\/09\/next-generation-tag-clouds\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T10:39:58","slug":"next-generation-tag-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/09\/next-generation-tag-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Next generation tag clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelamantia.com\/\">Joe Lamantia<\/a> recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelamantia.com\/blog\/archives\/ideas\/tag_clouds_evolve_understanding_tag_clouds_1.html\">two<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelamantia.com\/blog\/archives\/ideas\/second_generation_tag_clouds.html\">part<\/a> essay on tag clouds. He\u2019s managed to create a nice primer on tagging from an <acronym title=\"Information Architecture\">IA<\/acronym>\u2019s point of view. His tone of voice is a bit academic, which may turn you off, but his predictions of future directions for tagging and tag clouds are <del datetime=\"2006-03-09T14:32:28+00:00\">spot on<\/del> <ins datetime=\"2006-03-09T14:32:57+00:00\">quite interesting<\/ins>.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago I tried to come to grips with the tagging phenomenon in <a href=\"http:\/\/open.info.nl\/categorie\/tagging\/\">a series of posts on open.info.nl<\/a> (in Dutch). The last one was on <a href=\"http:\/\/open.info.nl\/archief\/2005\/11\/08\/facets-en-tags-%e2%80%93-best-of-both-worlds\/\">facetted tagging<\/a>. Lamantia briefly mentions this as a new direction, but doesn\u2019t really describe how he imagines this would work. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in the planning phase of a facetted tagging demo, and still not sure how to approach it: should content editors specify the facets within which content users can tag, or should the facets be tags as well. In other words \u2013 how far should we go in relinquishing control over metadata?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Lamantia recently published a two&#8211;part essay on tag clouds. He\u2019s managed to create a nice primer on tagging from an IA\u2019s point of view. His tone of voice is a bit academic, which may turn you off, but his predictions of future directions for tagging and tag clouds are spot on quite interesting. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/09\/next-generation-tag-clouds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next generation tag clouds<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[14,13,82],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ia","tag-information-architecture","tag-tagging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}