Tag Clouds

October 5, 2007 lammal

Lara Skolnik

By looking at the different tag clouds of the group discussions, I found that each group took their chats in different directions. In group one, the most used words were authors, authorship, publishing, internet, idea, and yeah. this group stuck to the topic of authorship. By looking at group 2′s tag cloud, it is less obvious what exactly was discussed. There are less big, bold words, which leads me to beleive that the group jumped from topic to topic because one word was not used over and over. In group 3′s discussion, they must have spent a lot of time talking about the internet, because “internet” is the biggest and most bold word in the cloud. Group 4′s discussion appears to be a more casual discussion because i see a lot of big, bold, haha’s, true’s, and yea’s. Tag clouds are a perfect way to get an overview of what a blog is about because instead of reading the whole thing, you can easily just see what words are used the most and waht words are used the least.