Or did someone switch tag clouds with another site? I rarely post in here, and when I do it's normally boring procedural stuff. However, I do stop by and read your posts at least three or four times a week. I liked the comments that were left in response to Chris Hall's "Benchmarking: good, bad or ugly" a useful discussion, I enjoyed Andy Ramsden's musings on Twitter - not convinced but liked the musing, and today I listened the interview with Frances Long as recommended by Christina Costa.
So what's my problem? Why are these interesting and useful posts not appearing in the tag cloud - in-fact without naming and shaming why does almost every tag cloud link take me to a completely irrelevant place that as no recent posts, and is of no discernable use to the community. Is there a special algorithm that is needed to generate a tag cloud that is so unrepresentative of this community? Or is it that only a few people know how to manipulate the cloud?
So (and it's really not my place to ask, but I'm going to 
) what do we as a community want as a navigational tool at the top of this page - tag cloud that only goes to one place? A tag cloud that represents the posts that have been made? or something else? Post your comments below and tell me.
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Lawrie
You've hit on something that has vaguely suprised me too. The tagcloud seems strangely unrelated to the actual messages that Emergers have kindly written. I wonder how I get to influence the tagcloud to get ukan-skills mentioned
The algorithm considers how many 'hits' a tag had.
In the frontpage shows the most recent access, and in the 'Tag Cloud' page they are randomized within a threshold of hits
Doesn't consider by whom, and doesn't need to be logged-in.
They are displayed after been filtered for permissions to who is accessing 'public, private, group,...'
There is a bit of a dilemma between having an open to the public & keeping everything within the general community.
Thanks Joe
Does the algorithm also consider how many items are tagged with the tag?
for the record, dear George, people throughout the community need to know a couple of things arising out of this post and ensuing commentary - so here goes telling it (online) as it is.
first, for the avoidance of doubt, please take this response by way of notice that this set of posts is being flagged as both defamatory and offensive to the community member being wrongfully accused of artificially inflating the hit count relating to the tag cloud instances in question.
in this sense, am suggesting that both the programme manager and the project director (not to name and shame) consult their respective line managers as to how best to offer official redress - the chain of command may also wish to consult JISC Legal on the matters arising, particularly with regard to the careful phrasing of this here comment which is being posted publicly in formal response to said accusations.
additionally, the chain of command may wish to consult OSS Watch on related risk management matters arising out of having procured and deployed elgg open source software thus far. for example, the attempted reverse-engineering of elgg specific algorithms may be in breach of existing software licensing agreements - access to source code does not usually extend to potential abuse of author/developers' moral rights.
notwithstanding, it is important that this set of posts is NOT removed from public view and consideration as a result, because there are a number of points that can be expressly shared with the community in light of this episode, and it is important that such points become part and parcel of our community development trajectory for the ongoing benefit of the wider communities that we concurrently serve as a whole, if nothing else.
so, on a less formal note without prejudice to the above, and in not so many words: you chaps may find it easier to get passed your perceived impasse if you begin your inquiries from the heartfelt appreciation that there has been no artificial manipulation of the variables involved, and the phenomena at hand (which has been consistently labelled "innovation precipitation" rather than tag cloud) has arisen as a naturally occuring artificat of our present elgg platform coupled with community members' (and general public) interactions with the same.
for example, the use of the keyword "transformational flow" may be regarded as far from esoteric. its relevance to our community can be easily ascertained by typing in the same keyword as a standard google search term on the world wide web. doing so will lead you to extensive documentation relating to how the term is currently being used by the Office of Government Commerce's Managing Successful Programmes best practice guidance. in fact, "MSP transformational flow" is listed as one of the three core concepts framing the entire model for the revised 2007 edition. the keyword "benefit realisation" stems from the same set of practices that are currently governing both how the U&I programme is becoming evaluated, and how the same may become better evaluable in light of our own specialist use cases in the context of web 2.0 and open source ethos informed technologies.
similarly, each of the keywords in question have been authored to act as, inter alia, scholarly points of search and retrieval that lead primarily to richer content being stored within this here elgg digital repository, coupled with additional sources of emerging and related information being held elsewhere.
now, by way of seeking to creatively move on from here, an aporia green "easter elgg hunt" will be openly initiated to make this dynamic aspect of our community development more obviously visible to all members and general public alike. this aporia work is hereby offered in the hope of our cross-culturally stepping together towards something more than just what has merely gone before: so here's bidding you a happy easter; and relax - we're all in the same emerging boat at the end of the day - there is no other.
at any event, all rights are reserved generally, and all being well, weblog post consolidating aporia green's easter elgg hunt, and its story so far, to follow shortly with keyword "easter elgg hunt" as original identifier for the record.