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I’ve placed a tag cloud on the second sidebar of this blog. I’ve also placed a screenshot in this post.

The real tag cloud has clickable tags that I’ve used to organize my blog posts.
A tag cloud displays the frequency or importance of tags by using color, size and position. It’s a great way to display a textual summary in a graphical format. For more examples, here’s a link to Wikipedia’s article on tag clouds.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/24/tag_cloud_for_2007_s.html

This BoingBoing article points to a tag cloud that represents US President George W. Bush’s 2007 State of the Union address.

More information is available at Jason Griffey’s blog, Pattern Recognition.

I heard Mike speak at an HTCA meeting on November 16, 2005. An MP3 file is available on HPU’s media server, thanks to Dolly Samson.

• http://hpu.edu/index.cfm?section=News8264&contentID=8400
• http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2007/01/22/daily36.html

Here’s a response that I wrote to an IS 6100 student this morning. This student was pleased that I’m not using WebCT. Frankly, I share their joy! I think the university’s implementation of WebCT is clumsy, awkward and slow, and I had having to log into Pipeline first.

However, the student was also concerned about how to keep up with my announcements to the class.

Note: IS 7010 students can check http://billso.com/courses/7010/ for their announcements, and I’ll be setting up a new IS 7010 page soon, too.

Thanks for your questions! They’re good!

As you noted, HPU’s implementation of WebCT is not reliable. Fortunately, I can use TurnItIn.com to manage the assignments and post your grades. It’s much more secure than anything I could install on billso.com.

The originality checker is a nice bonus. It helps keep your assignments from being copied by other students.

I can understand your concerns about checking two additional web sites! If you check http://billso.com/courses/6100 regularly, you shouldn’t miss anything. I would bookmark that web address if I were you!

Believe me, I work hard to manage these sites and make them easy to use. So I will be phasing out my current page at http://hpu.sodeman.com/6100 during the next couple of weeks. They are butt-ugly and difficult to use.

I’m setting up a page on billso.com to post files for IS 6100. There will be a big announcement about it when I get it done.

Let me know if you have more questions!

William A. Sodeman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems