2005-04-25

Tagclouds

Just added those infamous tag clouds to this blog (as seen on the Observer Blog, Joi Ito, O'Reilly Radar or Ask MetaFilter). I just love them. Whenever I run across them, I have this uncontrollable desire to click on all the tiny tags (I rarely click on the biggies).


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# posted by saurierduval : 4/25/2005 11:59:00 PM
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How did you do it? I want to add tagclouds, but could you give me some hints on how to do it?
# posted by Alex : 5/20/2005 01:47:00 PM
 
it's a little tricky, since this blog runs on blogger.com which is great but has its limitations...

(1) I use a dedicated del.icio.us account for tagging only the entries of this blog
(2) del.icio.us has an API for getting the tags for an account (see http://del.icio.us/doc/api)
(3) I use a script which generates a javascript file which writes the html for the cloud
(4) this javascript is included in the template

I don't know TypePad, but I bet it's possible to come up with a less cumbersome solution.
# posted by saurierduval : 5/21/2005 02:57:00 PM
 
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