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Why pixels are square

23-Jul-10

As a scientist at the National Bureau of Standards in the 1950s, Russell Kirsch worked with the only programmable computer in the United States.
“The only thing that constrained us was what we imagined,” he says. “So there were a lot of things we thought of doing. One of which was, what would [...]

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Tags

11-Jul-08

This is a visual representation of how I describe my bookmarks on del.icio.us. Click a word to see the list of web pages that I think relate to that topic. (Note: this will take you away from the Plethaurus web site.)

Wordle.net can automagically make an even more aesthetically pleasing cloud of your wise and witty [...]

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My Wordle!

13-Jun-08

For the Information Futures project we used Tagcrowd.com to generate visual representations of three documents — the Consultation Paper, the set of 70-odd written submissions, and the draft strategy. These tag clouds have been useful for showing the similarities and differences in what people care about.
Another such tool is Wordle.net, which can automagically make an [...]

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