Reconstruct - Building a Better Superstruct Interface
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Who else is tagging like you?
Website: http://superstructgame.net/SuperstructView/523
Location: In a cloud (see below)
Members: 6
Latest Activity: Nov. 17, 2008
Look at the cloud. Look for the words you have used to tag your own creations. See if words that other people have used match your purpose. If they do, use them. If there is a better word, replace what you have used. If there is a typographical error , change it.
The cloud will respond to your care. The garden it contains within will enjoy a much richer connectedness.
By comparing our tags with those of others, we can create a common language. Allowing your tags to conform increases the overall tag signal (and, as you will see, the signal/noise ratio, as indicated by tag font size is sometimes quite low!)
As the related items become available, the ability to seek out similarly minded structs and their members will improve.
This is tag gardening!
Related Story: The Garden in The Cloud
The cloud will respond to your care. The garden it contains within will enjoy a much richer connectedness.
By comparing our tags with those of others, we can create a common language. Allowing your tags to conform increases the overall tag signal (and, as you will see, the signal/noise ratio, as indicated by tag font size is sometimes quite low!)
As the related items become available, the ability to seek out similarly minded structs and their members will improve.
This is tag gardening!
Related Story: The Garden in The Cloud
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Comment by Tony Fisk on November 16, 2008 at 8:37pm -
The words are tags. Their size is an indication of the number of references made to them (I actually make it the square root, so that it's effectively the area taken up). Apart from alphabetically, I could order them by size, or initial tag creation date
If I understand you Matt, you would like to have tags ordered according to how closely they are associated via other items. The problem is that is not a linear comparison: each tag is connected (via structs and wotnot) to a lot of other tags. I can envision this as tags tied to each other by bits of elastic that pull them, but the actual modelling is a little beyond me. Better to let the visual cortex do the heavy lifting.
Actually, I think flume(?), a tool that was discussed in the 'forest in the trees' discussion area allowed you to do something similar by dragging items around. A cool tool, if you had Flash expertise (which I don't!)
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Comment by Matt Arnold on November 16, 2008 at 8:19pm - Suppose instead of alphabetization, you weight words in their nearness to each other based on how often they appear together as tags on the same items? Is that feasable?
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Comment by Tony Fisk on November 16, 2008 at 5:05pm
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We can also add some viney things to the list borders, and some flowers/fruit for the bullet points
(I think I pointed you to Eric Meyer a while back. Have a look at some of his stuff. The guy is a CSS genius, and a pretty decent graphic designer as well!)
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Comment by IneffaBelle on November 16, 2008 at 4:23pm - Yes! perhaps some randomized color on the text would be awesome... and maybe a gardeny background. Basically graphics could add a lot!
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Comment by Tony Fisk on November 16, 2008 at 3:39pm
- On a slightly different topic, the thing looks a bit utilitarian to be called a tag garden. Do any artistic types have some ideas to spruik it up a little?
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Comment by Tony Fisk on November 16, 2008 at 3:35pm
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Wow, thanks Belle!
From a purely practical viewpoint, however, I don't think it works. Two reasons:
1. The tag garden displays a lot of text, and really needs as much screen space as it can get. Encapsulating it in another app's window tends to restrict this.
2. The display was very slow to load
Still, that's just one user's perspective. What do others think?
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Comment by IneffaBelle on November 16, 2008 at 1:52pm
- I took the liberty of embeded your amazing cloud right within Reconstruct HERE under the new 'Data Toys' tab. What do you think?
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Comment by Tony Fisk on November 16, 2008 at 12:31am
- Yes, it is a form of idnexing, Carol. The problem we faced was that structs don't have any means of formally linking. This seemed like the next best way to go (credit to Marco for first pointing it out)
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Comment by Beverly on November 15, 2008 at 4:04pm - The work you have done is amazing!
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Comment by Caroling Wholeo on November 15, 2008 at 11:48am - I guess this is a form of indexing.
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