I way dig this guy’s blog. Aside from very high calibre layout and design, and his uncanny ability to find brown hues that actually work, he has this wicked ‘tag cloud’ functionality.
He has a java script that parses all his posts, finds the most commonly used words by month, and the most recently used words, then sizes and colors them and gives you a slider that allows you to scroll back and forth in time to find what he has been talking about most often and for the longest time. Of course, you can click on any of the words in the cloud and it will open a page with all the posts that use that word.
The word ‘cool’ simply does not have enough ‘o’s in it to capture how cooooool that is. Once I have enough actual content on this blog to make that even remotely useful as a search tool for wanderers, I’ll have to get the same thing.
I also think there are some interesting practical applications for this tool. It could be used to parse the mass-media, internet wide, to predict trends in pop-culture and get a jump start on developing entertainment that will arrive just as certain concepts boil over in the mass-consciousness. It kind of reminds me of Watchmen, and how Ozymandias parsed the media by watching a bunch of TV channels all at once to understand all of us lesser beings. Anyway, this dude has a billion dollar invention in his hands. He should sell it to Google right now.
I also think his web-comic ‘Calm Down!’ is hilarious.
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