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How Do Tag Clouds Work?

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Library Journal interviewed Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, for the January 15th edition. The interview includes Tim’s explanation of how tag clouds work. Tim talks about the relative size and bold-ness of the tags and how the software figures out what to display in very non-technical terms. It’s really interesting. [...]

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Passing Time with the AADL Catalog

Monday, January 22, 2007

I’m in the Atlanta airport for a good while, waiting for my flight to San Antonio for Open Repositories, so I shelled out for wifi access. And now that I have, I’m going to find things to do online until the last possible minute or until my battery dies!
One good way to pass time [...]

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NYT Site Search

Friday, August 18, 2006

At least library catalogs aren’t the only search tools with problems:
When I search for “A Food Website Spiced with Attitude”, the NYT’s search engine should take a wild, off-the-wall guess about what article I might be looking for, and not return zero results.
At This is Broken
An interesting discussion ensues concerning what search engines should [...]

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