So, I’ve got a bit crazy with some of the Lotusphere notions and my blog. I just implemented a tag cloud. I actually think it may prove interesting from a research POV. I will be curious …

will I keep it up to date ?
will it expose trends in my blogging content that I was not [...]

I use a blogging client called Windows Live Writer. It is an XMLRPC client that supports the MetaWeblog API. One thing that has bothered me has been it’s interface for “categories”. From looking at the API, I think it is less of an artifact of the client and more of a limitation in the API. [...]

My Tag cloud implementation started from the Matt’s weighted-categories implementation on hitormiss. It was working fine but I needed two things (yeah, just 2)

the hover text to be more informative
WordPress 2.1 support

I only needed to change one line to make the hover text include the category name (for cases where my font size was tiny). [...]