So maybe you've seen tag clouds, like at del.icio.us and other sites. I think they are, like, totally cool. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's basically a way of presenting information that conveys a couple things at once. Typically you see a collection of tags, and the most-used tags are shown in larger fonts, so your eyes are first drawn to the most important things, but everything else is there.

It's easier to show than explain, which takes me to the point of this post, which is to show off something I put on perkowitz.net. Check out my new photo page. The cloud shows the most-used keywords among my many photos -- click on one to see the matching photos. The larger the tag, the more photos there are (hover to see an exact count). I added a little twist to my cloud too. I have too many tags to show them all in a manageable way, but instead of just showing the most common ones, which would get boring, there's an ever-changing fringe of lesser tags (try it! reload!).

One more feature, which I've really been having fun with, is that if you click on a tag, which essentially does a keyword search, you get a cloud with the resulting search. This cloud (try clicking on "japan") shows all the tags that occur on all the photos resulting from the search, and if you click on one, it narrows your search! awesome. Computers r cool.