Generate Tags Based on Your Content

by Marcus on May 18, 2007

Interesting site I just learned about from Josh Cody and ChurchMarketingSucks.com, a site run partially by my friend, Kevin Hendricks. (Kevin is a new writers for TheHighCalling.org, but his first article is still in the cue.)

The site is called TagCrowd, and it generates tag clouds automatically based on the text you are tagging.

For example, here is the auto-generated tag cloud for the entire text of my series on the blog tour (still in progress).

authority bloggers blogs comments data measure pagerank people post power site technorati thehighcalling tour traffic work

created at TagCrowd.com

So what do you think? Is this helpful? Interesting? Technology spinning its wheels?

{ 7 comments }

1 L.L. Barkat May 18, 2007 at 4:03 pm

Um, I’m in the clouds, and it’s foggy in here.

2 Eve Nielsen May 19, 2007 at 8:53 am

I use tabs for my tags. I find that cloud tagging does work better on some blogs-especially design wise.

For a blog that already has a lot of front-page content, though, it can be a bit cluttery.

3 Jenn May 19, 2007 at 11:01 am

Is blogging itself like a virtual manifestation of the great cloud of witnesses?

Like LL, I feel a bit foggy about all this.

4 Susan May 19, 2007 at 11:30 am

I think I should find a “blogging for dummies” book – this is as over my head as the clouds themselves.

5 Eve Nielsen May 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm

Tag is a label/key words/topic/etc

6 Marcus May 20, 2007 at 4:24 pm

I’m with you all ultimately. What is the point of tags? They don’t link anywhere. Hmm. It’s time to go back to the books on this one.

In the meantime, I’ll finish up the blog tour series over the next few days.

7 Every Square Inch May 20, 2007 at 9:51 pm

Marcus

I like the idea of the cloud tag…presumably it’s an aesthestically pleasing way to display your tags (“labels” in Blogger). I’ve seen it on other blogs, and have been intrigued by it. However, I’ve never seen it implemented on a Blogger blog.

I like tags because it’s essentially metadata for your blog. It provides a way to organize and describe your blog content.

I might give it a try implementing tag clouds down the road. Thanks for sharing.

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