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Tag CloudsReading the poetic interface
Jeremy DouglassResearcher, Software Studies InitiativeUniversity of California San Diego
New Reading InterfacesModern Language Association, Chicago 2007
Jeremy DouglassResearcher, Software Studies InitiativeUniversity of California San Diego
http://jeremydouglass.com [email protected]
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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
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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)
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Ballad collection of Samuel Pepys
… PepysViz
Tassie Gniady
2007
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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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Jeremy DouglassResearcher, Software Studies InitiativeUniversity of California San Diego
http://jeremydouglass.com [email protected]