Shawna Teer's List: librarystuff

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• A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual  design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site,  used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single  words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is  shown with font size or color. ^[1] Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by  popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a  collection of items that are associated with a tag.
• The first use of tag clouds on a high-profile website was on the photo sharing  site Flickr

• In the first type, size represents the number of times that tag has been  applied to a single item.^[4] This is useful as a means of displaying metadata about an item that has been democratically 'voted' on and where  precise results are not desired. A good example of this is Last.fm, which uses this method as a means of  displaying the genre with which an artist or track has been tagged.

   

  In the second, more commonly used type,^{[citation needed]}  size represents the number of items to which a tag has been applied, as a  presentation of each tag's popularity. Examples of this type of tag cloud are  used on the image-hosting service Flickr and the blog  aggregator Technorati.

   

  In the third type, tags are used as a categorization method for content  items. Tags are represented in a cloud where larger tags represent the quantity  of content items in that category.

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