On 3/10/06, Joshua Schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am merely unconvinced that people are able to get value out of a giant > blob of text.
Well, it seems pretty clear that some people DO at some times, whether you want to believe it or not. The real question here is how often and how much-- one can't put EVERYTYHING that is of value to particular people into the interface. The "blob of text" is very useful for "taking the temperature" of a link (or a site, etc. as the case of the tag cloud may be). I find this quite useful on sites that I do not know-- a tag cloud, *particularly* a large one, can give a quick sense of the context of the publication or site (what political slant, do they cover topic X, Y or Z, regional focus, etc). I see the same thing as sometimes valuable for a link-- the difference is that I can assess the content of most links themselves quicker so the context is less valuable than for a whole site-- though not often enough that it warrants (to me) being poked into one's eye for every URL. Why not just have it as a linked option so people can get at it if they want to see it? c _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
