Comments on: What’s your Circle of Interest? http://ozgrant.com/2008/05/07/whats-your-circle-of-interest/ An Aussie in Seattle Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:57:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Grant Holliday http://ozgrant.com/2008/05/07/whats-your-circle-of-interest/#comment-16797 Grant Holliday Wed, 07 May 2008 19:28:37 +0000 http://gholliday.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/whats-your-circle-of-interest/#comment-16797 @Chad - It was more from my head than from my blog. But a tag cloud is a great idea, and I'd imagine that they would probably match up. I might have a crack at it one day and see how closely they align. @Chad - It was more from my head than from my blog.

But a tag cloud is a great idea, and I’d imagine that they would probably match up.

I might have a crack at it one day and see how closely they align.

]]> By: What’s your Circle of Interest? - Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity http://ozgrant.com/2008/05/07/whats-your-circle-of-interest/#comment-16796 What’s your Circle of Interest? - Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity Wed, 07 May 2008 18:33:23 +0000 http://gholliday.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/whats-your-circle-of-interest/#comment-16796 [...] Grant Holliday made us aware of Paul Stovell who put out the question to bloggers to define how they spend their time in terms if three areas: [...] [...] Grant Holliday made us aware of Paul Stovell who put out the question to bloggers to define how they spend their time in terms if three areas: [...]

]]> By: Chad Stone http://ozgrant.com/2008/05/07/whats-your-circle-of-interest/#comment-16794 Chad Stone Wed, 07 May 2008 13:39:13 +0000 http://gholliday.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/whats-your-circle-of-interest/#comment-16794 Grant, It's an interesting post but I would argue that your tag cloud could achieve the same goal. Or, are you thinking that this is more of a statement of intent rather than a statement of the past actions (which is all a tag cloud does). An idea: as the tag-cloud only looks at everything you have done and does not show changes in topic direction over time. You could write a perl script over your rss xml-doc and pick out the dates and tags. Pump this into a spreadsheet and then your readers could see your tag frequency over time. An extension would be to find/create a wordpress widget to do this for you. p.s. I never read the original article as the link wouldn't work for me. Paul Stovell's server seemed to be down. p.p.s. There is no mention of automation at all. Surely it should feature in your circle somewhere? :) Grant,

It’s an interesting post but I would argue that your tag cloud could achieve the same goal. Or, are you thinking that this is more of a statement of intent rather than a statement of the past actions (which is all a tag cloud does).

An idea: as the tag-cloud only looks at everything you have done and does not show changes in topic direction over time. You could write a perl script over your rss xml-doc and pick out the dates and tags. Pump this into a spreadsheet and then your readers could see your tag frequency over time.

An extension would be to find/create a wordpress widget to do this for you.

p.s. I never read the original article as the link wouldn’t work for me. Paul Stovell’s server seemed to be down.
p.p.s. There is no mention of automation at all. Surely it should feature in your circle somewhere? :)

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