For one thing, you could "subscribe" to the top 5 tags on delicious in a series of more than 5... You could also merge data from multiple sources on the client side to see what the hot tags *really* are across multiple contexts...
And inasmuch as there plenty of tag clouds out there, devining a more accessible microformat for this kind of data would help make more efficient the styling/presentation of such data. Chris On 9/20/06, Stephen Paul Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One small point to consider might be - how would the community at large benefit from this uF? What data could scripts/crawlers extract, what enhancements could, say, GM scripts add. If not enough is included to give a useful or meaningful answer to those questions, is it worth having a uF at all? On 9/20/06, Drew McLellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/9/2006, "David Janes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I would suggest that hTagcloud say that: "presentation is > >orthogonal to what we're trying to do -- provide semantic markup of > >tag clouds. Tag cloud implementers should come up with their own best > >way of handling the presentaion -- in fact, they probably already > >have! As a bonus, as soon as MS gets its act together you'll be able > >to do the presentation directly off the semantics, but we're not there > >yet". > > I think this is an important point. Ultimately in marking up a tag cloud, > we should be representing the value of each data point. > > This is what we already do with dates in hCalendar - we use an ISO > datetime to give the absolute value. Common presentation techniques are > a representation of that date in a friendly English-language format, and > plotting the date on a calendar grid. > > A common presentation technique for geo is to put a pin on a map at the > corresponding location, but the underlying microformat details latitude > and longitude. > > One might argue that the same should hold true of a tag cloud. It's not > inherently presentational, it's a bunch of (often relational) data > points. Those points should be equally capable of being formatted in a > data table or plotted as a pie chart. Even if the most common > presentation would be a cloud. It's all about the data. > > drew. > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- - Stephen Paul Weber, Amateur Writer <http://www.awriterz.org> MSN/GTalk/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ/AIM: 103332966 NSA: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLOG: http://singpolyma-tech.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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