Tag Cloud is VERY Cool

Jack just posted about a new (or at least newish) service called TagCloud. These clouds are the things that you see on Flickr or Technorati where there is a list of words and some are bigger than others and they are all links to keywords or ‘tags’ from posts on the site. These are also known as Folksonomies. Anyway this is very cool stuff. The best thing about it is that, like Jack mentions, is that this is not just ‘tags’ like Technorati’s listing. It is all the text in the posts. This is what I have been waiting for for this kind of tool. This makes it so that you are not limited by what the author picked as his or her tags or categories. You get a ‘folksonomy’ of all the words in the whole post!

Here is a link to the Project Management TagCloud I just created. It is basically a word index of all the current (and from this point forward since it is ever updating) posts from all the Project Management related feeds I subscribe to. The bigger the font the more posts there are that contain that word. Click a word and you get a list of the posts that contained it. There are at least 10 feeds here about PM.

Here is the cloud I created for Projectified. I modified my feed for a few minutes so that this cloud contains all 138 posts I have made so far.

The great thing about these is that they are updated several times a day so each time you visit it will be different since things are getting added all the time.

I'm very excited about this. It will make it easier to see how topics and thoughts and subjects are flowing across feeds or groups of feeds.