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Mentioned in an earlier post about Yahoo! Tag Soup, a computer generated list of tags for Yahoo! News presented in a tag cloud.

Well now you can make a tag cloud for any RSS feed/s, via TagCloud…and then paste the code into your blog.

These are considered “hot keywords”, meaning they are based on frequency…I think.

From their website:

“…TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds…”

Find information in your blog:

• Search box
• Surf around
• Browse archives
• Browse categories
• Browse tags (subject terms) for your blog
  (this applies if you duplicate your blog content with a Social Bookmark Manager, using tags as subject terms, whereas the blog categories are more broad)
• Computer processed tags, via TagCloud
  (These are tag names derived by a computer process that extracts a cloud of frequent/popular keywords - neither author or user-defined)

Here is my tag cloud for this blog.

I also pasted the code into my template…tried to fit it in the sidebar, so I added height and width to the code…although it looks a bit messy.

This is my code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"width="160" height="2500"src="http://www.tagcloud.com/cloud/js/LC-TagCloud/default"</script>

…any suggestions on making this more neat.

Here is a TagCloud for my del.icio.us account.

It would be great if del.icio.us made code for a tag cloud.
The difference is this would be a definitive tag cloud for user-defined tags, not popular/recent keyword extracted tags.

[via SEWblog]