I don’t often look at my own tag cloud. It’s a tool to find some subset within my bookmarks, and usually I know which tag I need before I get there. Sometimes, though, it helps to step back and see the bigger picture, the set of relationships among pieces. Chris Lehman wrote about his Wordle tag cloud and posted the link to Twitter this morning. I was intrigued. My Delicious account has been organized . . . not at all, really. It’s more of the “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” method. Viewing through the lens of Wordle, this is what I came up with: 
I can see some issues around the education tag – just what am I organizing that makes up most of my bookmarks anyway? It was also fun to see how my brain seems to organize these things when I’m not paying attention: Photo is larger than Photography, HowTo is larger than Tutorial, Free is larger than Software, and for an art teacher, the Math tag is a lot larger than I would have guessed.
So go ahead, put in your delicious account and see how you are thinking about the information you valued enough to bookmark in the first place. Will it change how you tag? Will you reorganize your bookmark closet? Do you care that you use game and gaming, or photo and photography, enough to go back and consolidate? Or, like me, are you just glad the search function works as well as it does with no pre-planning necessary.
