Tag Clouds
Nynke August 22nd, 2006
Bubbling in the bath, I watched my stew from the feedback I received on Blogging Benefits. Late last night, babbling with Lynne, she asked me about my tag cloud on Stone Circles and I explained to her how I use it. Worth a separate blog entry I believe.
A blog is an alarm clock for counting tyrant moves
As I journal the times of my life, certain things can keep re-appearing. I can gather some idea of what is working in my life and what is not. With this externalized memory in hand it is much easier to see patterns, changes, and shifts. I ask myself what Jerry taught me to ask, “What do I want to keep or change in, or remove from my back pack?“. Works for me!
How I much easier see patterns, changes, and shifts using my blog?
For each blog entry I determine its key words as closing procedure of writing or making changes to an individual entry. I choose key words that are used in the entry and together describe its skeleton gestalt for my intent with it. Not only tags, but also amount of tags entered typically differs per entry. I enter the key word in the tags field of the entry form in the backend. Not only are tags entered used as metatags for search-engines identifying the permalink page, the tags are also used in my tag cloud. Key words that are repeated become bigger.
My tagcloud - and if you cannot see it in the navigation bar on the left you are either reading from systemsthinking net or have come here through the permalink URL of this entry, you can go to Stone Circles Homepage to see it - has four layers distinguishable by the size of the tags: thickest word representing sourcering word, semi-thickest words conscious keys, “normal” words subconscious keys, and smallprint unconscious, yet determinable keys.
At the time of writing this tag cloud entry …
- was “joy” my sourcering word, the word revealing my intent
- conscious keys in my tag cloud were “connections” and “transparency”
- subconscious keys were “balancing, crystal ball gazing, desensitization games, measurements, mirroring, philosopher, presentations, relationship, richness”
- and my unconscious yet determinable word field contained “affective agile assessments awarenesses benefits best case blogging boundaries bridge camp checklist choice cognitive colorful world concept consciousness context contract dance of creation efteling emotional intelligence excentric expressions fantasy fear finite boundaries five freedoms fluffy bunny fluffy bunny stuff focus future gestalt gestalts gifts giving global oneness good gratitude happiness happy history I am okay illumination independence independent mind inner outer irrelevance journal leadership maturity memory message mocking bird modeling movies multinational mammoth multiverses mystery mystery theatre mystics needs negation negotiations nine obviously open sourcerer open space original parts presentation skills rainbow receiving religions resonance respect retrospectives rock rooting sameness self determination selves sensuality seven sexuality space spirals spiritualities stability suppression symbol talking team temperature readings things thought time tracking universal emotions universals vibrating silence vision vision forming walking wholebrained wine woolly mammoth worst case”
Hmmmnjah. Having Joy as tyrant isn’t so bad, and connections and transparency are quite welcome guests, my subconscious quite supportive and showing what’s already there and happening, and the field of words and potential tyrants seems to describe a garden with fluffy bunnies and a woolly mammoth running around in it … Not bad at all … :-))))))))))
Tag clouds can be organised purposefully
for transparent self reflection.
And for transparent community reflection,
like some additional collective unconscious layer,
for example the Technorati Tags.
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