Comments on: Towards Tag Poetry http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/ a blog and podcast dedicated to discussing text arts forms Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Writer Response Theory 2004-2005 wrt@writerresponsetheory.org (Writer Response Theory) wrt@writerresponsetheory.org Talk Radio Comment-cast: Towards Tag Poetry Comment-cast: Towards Tag Poetry Writer Response Theory Writer Response Theory wrt@writerresponsetheory.org http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/iTWRT.JPG WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress 144 144 by: Generating Web 2.0 at WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-45297 Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:50:24 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-45297 [...] Empytybottle offers a link to Brownpau’s even more appropriate slogan maker, that produces its output in a tag cloud (which ties in nicely with Jeremy’s work on Tag cloud poetry). [...] […] Empytybottle offers a link to Brownpau’s even more appropriate slogan maker, that produces its output in a tag cloud (which ties in nicely with Jeremy’s work on Tag cloud poetry). […]

]]> Generating Web 2.0 at WRT: Writer Response Theory [...] Empytybottle offers a link to Brownpau’s even more appropriate slogan maker, that produces its output in a tag cloud ... [...] Empytybottle offers a link to Brownpau’s even more appropriate slogan maker, that produces its output in a tag cloud ... by: Diigo Fiction: Marginalia in the Library of Babel at WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-26478 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:16:17 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-26478 [...] The web is becoming ours to write with. Whether supplying, ranking, or reviewing its contents or reordering the web with our folksonomic tagclouds, we are becoming the owners of more than just our Craig’s list and Ebay possessions. We are orchestrating this web and making of it what we will. Jeremy and Matt Kirschenbaum have reported on the moments when the tagclouds become art. And now the web pages themselves have become our surfaces, our building blocks. Here’s how… [...] […] The web is becoming ours to write with. Whether supplying, ranking, or reviewing its contents or reordering the web with our folksonomic tagclouds, we are becoming the owners of more than just our Craig’s list and Ebay possessions. We are orchestrating this web and making of it what we will. Jeremy and Matt Kirschenbaum have reported on the moments when the tagclouds become art. And now the web pages themselves have become our surfaces, our building blocks. Here’s how… […]

]]> Diigo Fiction: Marginalia in the Library of Babel at WRT: Writer Response Theory [...] The web is becoming ours to write with. Whether supplying, ranking, or reviewing its contents or reordering the web ... [...] The web is becoming ours to write with. Whether supplying, ranking, or reviewing its contents or reordering the web ... by: Web Statistics Poem Generator at WRT: Writer Response Theory http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-15407 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:07:53 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-15407 [...] The equivalence between numbers and words is managed in this case by webstats4U, which is linked from the post. Yet when we consult the current search terms list, we realize that the text of “v.1” is both a process and an artifact of the moment of creation - like search art or tag poetry, the process outputs are tied to an ephemeral and shifting network of results, a “Syntax of Inertia.” Here are the current web stats as as of November 14, 2005, with the former values of numbers used in the poem listed in parentheses. 1. mez (the) 2. phenotext 3. genotext (Syntax) 4. and (a) 5. strechnology (of) 6. system 7. programs (Inertia) 8. tool (technique) 9. Raley 10. RELATION (feeder) 11. phonetic (its) 12. urban 13. TO (emotional) 14. CODING 15. [Net.Wurk] (body) 16. language (style) 17. COMPLICATIONS (depends) 18. Australian 19. device 20. IN (upon) 21. homophones (Aldous) 22. komninos (energy + machine) 23. literary (mez) 24. COMMON 25. reading [...] […] The equivalence between numbers and words is managed in this case by webstats4U, which is linked from the post. Yet when we consult the current search terms list, we realize that the text of “v.1” is both a process and an artifact of the moment of creation - like search art or tag poetry, the process outputs are tied to an ephemeral and shifting network of results, a “Syntax of Inertia.” Here are the current web stats as as of November 14, 2005, with the former values of numbers used in the poem listed in parentheses. 1. mez (the) 2. phenotext 3. genotext (Syntax) 4. and (a) 5. strechnology (of) 6. system 7. programs (Inertia) 8. tool (technique) 9. Raley 10. RELATION (feeder) 11. phonetic (its) 12. urban 13. TO (emotional) 14. CODING 15. [Net.Wurk] (body) 16. language (style) 17. COMPLICATIONS (depends) 18. Australian 19. device 20. IN (upon) 21. homophones (Aldous) 22. komninos (energy + machine) 23. literary (mez) 24. COMMON 25. reading […]

]]> Web Statistics Poem Generator at WRT: Writer Response Theory [...] The equivalence between numbers and words is managed in this case by webstats4U, which is linked from the post. ... [...] The equivalence between numbers and words is managed in this case by webstats4U, which is linked from the post. ... by: m0nks http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-697 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:33:40 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-697 just a few thoughts... Why not use the metaphor of the cloud? The shape of the cloud is important. Simple indents and alignments can be used to shape the cloud into different cloud types, and allude to computer code (indents) and lists (lining up vertically) together with the linear breadth of the cloud. Different colours of grey can communicate what state in the cloud the tag represents, the darker the colour the closer to black, the colour that represents water (in Chinese 5 elements theory anyway - correct me if i am wrong). The tags are hyper textual, so haiku springs (a water metaphor) to mind. Surfing (as in surfing the web) is also a water metaphor. I wondered lonely as a cloud surfing zeitguests tagging misty ideas just a few thoughts…

Why not use the metaphor of the cloud?

The shape of the cloud is important. Simple indents and alignments can be used to shape the cloud into different cloud types, and allude to computer code (indents) and lists (lining up vertically) together with the linear breadth of the cloud.

Different colours of grey can communicate what state in the cloud the tag represents, the darker the colour the closer to black, the colour that represents water (in Chinese 5 elements theory anyway - correct me if i am wrong).

The tags are hyper textual, so haiku springs (a water metaphor) to mind.

Surfing (as in surfing the web) is also a water metaphor.

I wondered lonely as a cloud
surfing zeitguests
tagging misty ideas

]]> m0nks just a few thoughts... Why not use the metaphor of the cloud? The shape of the cloud is important. Simple indents and ... just a few thoughts... Why not use the metaphor of the cloud? The shape of the cloud is important. Simple indents and ... by: Jean Vronis http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-627 Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:49:21 +0000 http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2005/10/12/towards-tag-poetry/#comment-627 These words are all rhymes with -ogue in the most complete Fench dictionary and their size reflects their frequency in french speaking blogs according to Technorati. The software used was wiritten by myself. These words are all rhymes with -ogue in the most complete Fench dictionary and their size reflects their frequency in french speaking blogs according to Technorati. The software used was wiritten by myself.

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