http://www.mentalklinik.com/

Thanks to http://wordle.net

other than its obvious charms, such as having access to dancing hampsters, dubai luxuries, and the latest (third party) announcements of what can only be described as our continual loss of liberties, the web, as access to information and fun, can and will be integral to our success as a people, in our local community and as a global civilization.

as they say about the roads in mexico, utilícelo o piérdalo.

for my one day before/about OneWebDay 2008, i would like to share some of the inspirational things i see happening on the web. to me, these are tender sprouts of innovation, and the sort of things we need to protect with an open web.

localharvest.org :: people can find local food, once again. ideally, a site such as this could allow people to request items, and farmers would have access to varieties and amounts requested, and offer to fill the order in the coming season. (an interactive CSA).

public input in government :: the UK is "hoping to find new uses for public information in the areas of criminal justice, health and education."

the public works :: cityzens of merced post street issues on a platial map.

obama on technology and innovation :: the site, scribd, is a beautiful thing in itself, and obama's use of technology continues to astound me, as well as his insight into future uses of technology to improve government.

corpwatch :: and who watches the corpwatch? someone else. then someone else. then someone else. maybe one day we won't need to watch, as the corporative/governation/populice distinction will be moot. meaning integration through access.

tolweb.org :: tree of life web project. as we glimpse the interconnectivity of our natural systems, we can respectfully emulate its grace and efficacy in our own design. our designs can become/include their own growth patterns. evolvative, generative scalability.

of course, that last tree of life has only boring names.

which brings me to the meat. 3D imaging....

digitised.info :: an evolutionary bioinformatician's 3D hyperbolic viewer of the tree of life. whoo hoo!

what is the difference? brain warp. but don't worry, brain warp is a good thing. who knows, it may mean we are evolving. (note to evolutionary bioinformatician: update tree of life)

here is some more brain warp:

MGTD :: this is one for fiddlers, and i don't mean charlie daniels. it is an alpha version of the new MonkeyGTD tiddlyspot system, based on tiddlywiki. tiddlywiki is a brain warp on its own, especially in the arena of social implications, but spend a few days here in simon's realm, and you'll spend the next two weeks curled up with a nested file system and a blankie.

3DOSX :: my current favorite 3D ZUI interface. it's in a swimming pool! of course, files are still files. but soon they will be something else. bags of holding, maybe?

3d visualization interests me for this reason: our current concepts and constructs as the human animal intelligent are, arguably, based on our ability for symbolic representation. in the past, we had paper. two-dimensions. from that medium we were able to visualize three. if we become familiar with a three-dimensional interface, will we be able to become familiar with the fourth?

in the spirit of 4D visualization, here is a video of a tesseract i compiled from a series of shorter clips that were posted online by a professor named Terry Boyce, who used to be in hong kong, in 2003.

ok. so.

to wrap this up, as today is almost tomorrow, at least here, now, and is definitely tomorrow in other places, a mention of my personal paladin, the tag cloud. one definition of a tag cloud is: a visual depiction of user-generated tags. people generating tags means other people can find what they are talking about and talk about the same thing. key to communication. communication drives development. (needed: web-wide tag readers)

here are some tag clouds:

chir.ag :: tag clouds of state of the union addresses
searchcloud.net :: search the web using tag clouds. (i searched 'tag cloud')
wordie.net :: tag cloud generator. fontographers become imagicians.
tagcloud.com :: an original tag cloud, if not the original tag cloud, sadly overwhelmed with traffic, and temporarily down. it seems 6 million page views per month will bring down a single server. who knew?

and, finally, i'll send you off with a big hurray for the UK, who recently released satellite tracking information as these pretty pretty lights.

OneWebDay 2008

>> Une superbe collection de fonts.

• SearchCloud.net
  (tags: search searchengine cloud tagcloud google engine software tag)

>> Une autre façon de rechercher de l'info. sur le web. Testé et pas tout à fait convaincu. Promis, je vais recommencer.

• Apprise Reader (beta)
  (tags: rss twitter reader feed air news application internet flash social)

>> Un lecteur de flux sous Adobe Air. Sympa. Avec des possibilités d'alerte sous AIM et du push sur Twitter.

• Clés - Assurance Maladie
  (tags: france sécu sécuritésociale dépenses progression assurancemaladie)

>> Aïe. 4,1 milliards : le « trou de la Sécu » cette année, contre 12,3 en 2004.

• More Add-ons for Google Earth Flight Simulator
  (tags: google earth flight flightsimulator simulator)

>> J'adore !

Like mood rings and fanny packs, like mullets and the Macarena, the weighted tag clouds meme popularized by Flickr and Technorati is about to cross a permanent cultural shame threshold. Brilliant as the idea remains, faddishness is choking its air supply. Damned clouds are everywhere.

/*
*Author: A.H.M. Rakibul Islam
*Email: rubelonline@yahoo.com
*Build Date: 23-07-2008
*/

$thistag = $_GET['tag']; //Getting the tag

$result = mysql_query("select * from tags where tag = '$thistag'");

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
if($row['tag'] == $thistag) //if $thistag matches with existing tag
{
if($row['hit'] < 30) // and is less the 30 hit then update the hit = hit +1, because this hit is eventually be the font size;
{
$updated_hit = $row['hit'] + 1;
mysql_query("UPDATE `tags` SET `hit` = '$updated_hit' WHERE `tag` ='$thistag'");

$updated = 1;
}//end of if($row['hit'] < 30)
}//end of if($row['tag'] == $thistag)
}//end of while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))

if(!isset($updated)) //If $updated != 1, that means it is a new tag and it will then need to inserted to the table with it's respective link
{
$arr = explode("#",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); //capturing the current address to create link for the tag
$link = "http://localhost$arr[0]"; //it will create http://localhost/sitename, which creates respective link for the tags
//$link = "http://mysite.com$arr[0]"; //for real webserver
$hit = 10; //Initializing the hit from 10 because it will be also the initial font size of the cloud

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `tags` ( `id` , `tag` , `link` , `hit` )
VALUES ( '', '$thistag', '$link', '$hit' );");
}

And for showing the cloud i wrote the following code:

session_start();
include('include/connection.php');

$result = mysql_query("select * from tags");

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
//style="font-size:'.$row['hit'].'px" is creating the font size of the tag.
echo ''.$row['tag'].' ';
}

You can download the tagcloud by clicking here

Tagclouds may be revealing and all that, but they're also quite boring. Visually I mean. Fortunately, there's something you can do about it with Wordle. IBM programmer Jonathan Feinberg wrote some algorithms for laying out and displaying words. His site reads the content directly from your blog or you can copy and paste text from your site, to make your own, cool wordcloud.
Loads of possibilities with fonts, colourschemes and layouts will make it a lot prettier to look at I tell ya...

Just look at that beautiful CultBlender Blog Wordle... I'm especially happy with the prominent place the word 'pigeons'has...

I'm going to tag this post with TagCloud.

I'm so cool.

(told you I'd be back.  Later.)

Das Plugin nennt sich WP Cumulus und erzeugt mittels Flash eine schicke bewegliche Tagcloud. Zwar ist diese sicherlich nicht für jedes Blog interessant und auf eine Verwendung in der Sidebar, wie Alex es auf seinem Testblog eingebaut hat, würde ich persönlich verzichten. Mir gehen ja auch sonst schon die vielen Blinkereien auf den Geist. Vielleicht finde ich aber mal ein Projekt, auf dem es zum Einsatz kommt. Derzeit spiele ich ja mit dem Gedanken nach einem Umzug meines Nebenprojekts "Schwarzes Gift" auch dort WordPress zu fahren und mal wieder ein bisschen mehr zu bloggen.

Problematisch sehe ich aber die Verwendung von Flash wenn kein weiterer Zugang zu den Tags besteht. Usability und Accessability müssten hier doch stark leiden. Und da keine Alternative Liste für Suchmaschinen zur Verfügung gestellt wird, muss man sich Fragen ob die Verwendung dieser Tagcloud nicht auch hier enorme Nachteile mit sich bringt ...

Eine nette Spielerei, aber auch nicht mehr.

You can view the larger cloud at the Wordle site also. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Da gibt es einen Widget Schlagworte und einen Widget Stichwortwolke.

Was sich dahinter tatsächlich verbirgt, ist im ersten Fall aber eine Schlagwortwolke / Tagcloud und im zweiten Fall eine Kategorienwolke ...

Habe heute meine TagWolke gefunden. Bei Xing.de habe ich gesehen, dass mich jemand bei www.123people.de gesucht hatte. Bin natürlich auf die Seite gesurft. Dort habe ich entdeck, dass auch eine TagWolke zu eine Person auf gebaut wurde. Ich muss sagen die ist ganz gut gelungen zu meiner Person. Na ja ich weiß nicht wie Stuttgart dahin kommt! Na ja, es gibt ja auch andere Menschen im Netz J . Vor allem ist mein Blog nicht in den Ergebnissen mit einbezogen. Wenn man mein Blog TagCloud mit dieser vergleicht, sieht man einige Übereinstimmungen. Das spricht für die Qualität. Natürlich funktioniert es nur bei Personen die im Netz präsent sind. Ich sehe noch viel Potenzial in Tagging und TagWolken nicht nur bei Personensuche. Hast Du noch coole TagWolken? Oder Ideen für Tagging? schreib einfach ein Kommentar.

Eine  Tagwolke  (engl.  „tag cloud“  è Schlagwortwolke) sieht  hübsch bunt  aus, die Erstellung mit Wordpress ist mir leider nicht gelungen, hat jemand einen TIPP ?

  mit dem  Tagcloud-Genarator auf 

                            http://www.tagcloud-generator.com/ 

  habe ich die   Schlagworte dieses Weblog  als Tagwolke  dargestellt ...

                 also  ein Beispiel  für eine Tagwolke ...

Quelle: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/ (Zugriff: 10.04.2008, 20.40)