For some time now I've been interested and admired much of the thinking behind folksonomy and tag cloud approaches ever since I first saw them in Flickr.
For me; these micro-word instances are (or should be) continually tied to its context through the use of linkages and web connections. These tightly coupled links, the tag clouds are part of the practical accomplishments of the people in situated action.
These clouds produced by Channel 4 News remain faithful to this coupling concept, by clicking on the word we find out not only how many times the cloud word was used, but it also connects us directly with the context via YouTube video for example. The link takes you to the actual transcript of the speech together with the video.
http://www.channel4.com/news/media/2009/12/day09/pbr2009_snowcloud/wordCloud.swf?embed=false
Snowcloud: Pre-budget report (Updated on 09 December 2009) By Channel 4 News
Why do I like them, or rather, why do I think I like folksonomic approaches? It makes us think about the use of categories. Categorisation schema, impose an invisible moral order, whereas folksonomies are just that, ‘ordinary’. This follows Schutz term of ‘self-typification’, the individual making intersubjective constructs and thus repositions the relationship we have to imposed structures.
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