Forecast: Cloudy

Annette inspired me to play with Tag Cloud Generator. It's neat. I especially like how you can change the color scheme. (I'm all about the pretty this evening.) I also like that while you can add your own tags, TCG's got software that will do the work for you and cull tags from your blog. Less typing...less thinking...there is no bad here. Especially seeing as these days I feel somewhat intimidated by tag assignment. I used to gleefully tag items with terms that were relevant to me until a friend pointed out that the whole point of social networking tools was that they were supposed to connect people and that my tagging scheme was a bit too ... opaque for the public at large. There were no connections being made whatsoever. Nobody (at least nobody who didn't know me extremely well) could follow my thought processes. My tags, for the most part, looked like a random word association exercise. I still do that a bit, mostly on my livejournal & in my personal bookmarks, but overall I'm trying to be more responsible toward my reading public (Hi Internets, how are you?) and use more common terms. You know what they say about power and responsibility, now don't you?

For the record, I'm vastly amused that "My blog...now with zombies added" gets the same prominence as "0 comments"...perhaps the one has something to do with the other?

But seriously, what's determining the larger size of certain terms over others? Their place in the lineup? (It's really not a cloud, at least not as displayed here. Note to self: must find one of the programs that generates a MOVING cloud. I'm pretty sure delicious has got one...) I wonder about the criteria and reasoning that determine this result:

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And so, good night. I leave you all to contemplate the significance of "5:52 PM"