Like many other blogs we here at Biomedicine on Display have a long list of (potentially) useful life science and health/medical blog links—all those sites which together constitute the hypertextual inspiration base for our web presence.
It would be great if these could be visualised as a blogroll cloud (like a tag cloud or a category cloud). So far I haven’t seen one, but last night, when I was playing with the new Wordle text cloud generator (see earlier post here), I used it to see what our blogroll would look like in cloud format.
First I created a cloud out of a net list of my 35 favourite blogs (using ~ between the words which is Wordle’s way of keeping words together in sentences):
Then I manipulated the picture a little (literally manually!). By repeating the names of my most-favourite blogs 2, 3 or 5 times I could produce a weight-effect:
Both look great, I think! Much better than most blogrolls I&#...
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Upgrading the blog to combat GSSPost Date: 2006-06-03 02:28:37
As you may have noticed, the blog has been idle for almost two weeks. We have been traumatised by the recent flood of spam. In fact almost 200 spam comments a day have come from these beasts who want to sell their online poker games, viagra pills, ’cheap’ mortgages, ......
Why not get Ozgene to help generate the mice for your next publication?Post Date: 2006-08-03 13:23:04
My spam mail filter (Spamfighter) is pretty efficient and usually I empty the spam folder without paying much attention to them. But sometimes I take a closer look. Last night the filter had caught a mail that wanted to sell me laboratory mice with the following argument:
Dear Colleague,
Mice generated by ......
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