May 2008
My Webvisions Slides (May 27, 2008)
Last Friday I gave a talk on tagging at Webvisions in Portland. I thought the session went well--the audience was interested and had excellent questions. Here are my slides: | View | Upload your own I've spoken at Webvisions twice...
Brand Tags: the really effective tag cloud (May 14, 2008)
In my book I write about some of the trade-offs involved in making tag clouds. Whenever you have a lot of tags, tag frequencies usually follow a power-law distribution. A few tags are used lots of times; most tags are...
Back to Melonville (May 10, 2008)
After last week's post on Bob and Doug Mackenzie, I thought I should mention the dozens of classic SCTV videos on YouTube. Watching these stirs a bit of teenage nostalgia for me. Many of these episodes were filmed in Edmonton,...
