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How did you generate the list of keywords, and their relative font sizes?

Not manually, I hope.

No, it’s generated automatically using a bit of perl embedded in the entry thanks to Brad’s PerlScript plugin.

That’s pretty interesting stuff. Reminds me of the Flickr page that displays the tags that way.

Adam, can you share this perl script with us?

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Yes, I would like to see the script as well.

Me too Adam, stop being a code-hoarder and toss us a bone ;-)

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An interesting idea for an improvement might be to link each keyword to the search results for that keyword, whether powered by a Google site search or Movable Type’s search.

I would generate such a list like so —

1. Query your database to get all of the records you want to examine…

SELECT body FROM myblogentries;

1. Read each row into your favorite scripting language and break the words apart on the spaces…

(in PHP) $words = split(’ ’ , $row[‘body’]);

1. Count word occurence for each record…

function cnt($item, $key) { global $n; $n[$item]++; } array_walk($words, ‘cnt’);

1. Normalize the results (i.e., scale from 0 to 1)…

asort($n, SORTNUMERIC); $n = arrayreverse($n); $max = current($n); function normalize($item, $key) { global $n, $max; $n[$key] = $n[$key] / $max; } array_walk($n, ‘normalize’);

1. Display each word on your page…

function listwords($item, $key) { global $n; $weight = $n[$key]; $size = 4 * $weight; echo “$key”; } array_walk($n, ‘listwords’);

Probably best to calculate and cache, of course. :)

Peace.

Does the list repopulate as time goes on based on the most recent entries?

I might recommend Jim Flanagan’s zeitgeist for something similar: http://twiki.tensegrity.net/bin/view/Main/SearchReferralZeitgeist

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