{"id":1628,"date":"2005-12-06T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/12\/06\/first_impressio.html"},"modified":"2005-12-06T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T16:45:10","slug":"first_impressio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/12\/06\/first_impressio.html","title":{"rendered":"first impressions based on tag clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, someone pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ljtags.com\/\">LJ Tags<\/a> which shows the top tags on LiveJournal.  I was really startled at how much this reflects the cultural difference between LJ and other blogging tools.  Where else do you see <i>meme<\/i> as the top tag and <i>life, school, work<\/i> and <i>music<\/i> as the other key ones?  And how cool is it that <i>rl, fanfic, harry potter<\/i>, and a bunch of russian terms are on there?  Take a look at the following tag clouds:<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Live Journal:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ljtags.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sims.berkeley.edu\/~dmb\/images\/LJtags.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b>Technorati<\/b> (a fraction of English tags):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sims.berkeley.edu\/~dmb\/images\/TechnoratiTags.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b>del.icio.us:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sims.berkeley.edu\/~dmb\/images\/deliciousTags.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Visually, they look awfully similar but the actual words included say such dramatically different things about their communities.  Fascinating fascinating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, someone pointed me to LJ Tags which shows the top tags on LiveJournal. I was really startled at how much this reflects the cultural difference between LJ and other blogging tools. Where else do you see meme as the top tag and life, school, work and music as the other key ones? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}