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Newspapers adopt Web 2.0 tag clouds 23 Mar 2007
The Vancouver Sun illustrates British Columbia (BC) property values as a Web 2.0 style tag cloud (The larger the item, the larger the growth in property value). An interesting choice given that most newspapers would have gone with a tried-and-trusted bar graph or a pie chart to convey this information.
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5 comments so far
P Kayne 23 Mar 2007 04:05 PM
Good to see that Web 2.0 has seeped into mainstream conciousness. And kudos to the person who put togther that layout. Its a creative and smart way of present that particular information through this printed medium.
Quakeulf 23 Mar 2007 04:50 PM
I find some tag clouds a bit messy when there's not enough variation in font size. This cloud though, is very good, though it seems they also substituted serifed fonts with sans-serif ones for the largest words, which to me seems like a strange idea, and it seems very random because there are other words there in boldtype that uses sans-serif and which are not that big.
fremo 24 Mar 2007 05:48 PM
If this is a joke, it's a good one.
Unfortunately I don't think it is meant as one.
'Tag cloud', 'web 2.0'... in a NEWSPAPER?
ON PAPER?
Sorry about the shouting, but this is so misunderstood. A tag cloud is neither hot nor modern or 'web x.x'. In the worst case it is a way of pointing everyone in the same direction. 'Look at what everyone likes!', but even in the best cases it is confusing and the information in hidden and therefor not easy accessable.
But to put it in print is more than bad.
It is an insult.
Or maybe it's a joke after all......
mike 25 Mar 2007 01:28 PM
but you cant click on them which further proves newspapers are dead.
Ronnie Brown 7 Jun 2007 05:03 PM
>> but you cant click on them which further proves newspapers are dead.
I think it works without it though. This newspaper is a good example of a 'static' tag cloud in that it's a great way to show the information required.