May 4, 2005
Zeldman on tag clouds
Jeffrey Zeldman shows his trademark thoughtfulness in his look at tag clouds, the popular technique of displaying most popular tags by size.
Though we're big fans of tag displays as used on O'Reilly's Radar blog, especially when entropy is part of the display, Zeldman's word of caution are a good guideline to follow. Judicious use of techniques like Adam Kalsey's weighted lists display in his Movable Type-powered blog will keep the technique as an effective way of presenting relevant information, instead of merely being used because it's possible.
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