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20 Sep 2006
Tagclouds are not MicroContent
I had to sleep over my comments on tagclouds yesterday. And I came to the conclusion that a tagcloud is not MicroContent. The main reason for this conclusion is that a tagcloud is not basic content. A tagcloud is based on aggregation of other MicroContent Items. A tagcloud is the result of a query. The result of this query is data in form of a table. And I decided already before that tables (or lists) are not MicroContent Item. This query counts the number of MicroContent Items that have a specific tag-value for a given set of MicroContent Items. And this is done for all available tag-values of the set. This set can be the most popular 100 Items of the day, month; all Items during a period; for a single user; for all users; etc. Any set can be possible.
Tagclouds do not fit my Definition of MicroContent. This is a nice example where a microformat is not related to MicroContent.