LibConf.com from Information Today

This Wordle shows the relative number of #IntLib10 tweets per tweeter so far. I will do another after the conference ends.

As suggested by Kathy Dempsey, author of The Accidental Library Marketer, here is a collection of Wordles based on the final program for each of the Internet Librarian conferences from 1997 to 2009.

Going back in time for this information was like an archeological dig through the the history of web development all the way back to the days before CSS and to when ITI hand coded the entire program in plain HTML.

When it comes to working with data on the web, there were no “good old days” to look back on with fondness in my opinion.

Jane Dysart messaged me earlier on Twitter and bounced over the idea about using the #CIL2010 TwapperKeeper Notebook to create a Wordle.  I took one look at all the tags and abbreviations and realized that would be messy, but her idea sounded fun if we just used the Twitter ID’s of those who used the #CIL2010 hashtag.

This Wordle is made from  the Twitter ID’s of everyone who used the #CIL2010 tag 5 times or more whether they were in attendance or not (yea, I mean you Tom Bruno/@oodja).

On Monday at CIL Greg Notess talked searching conversations and I’m really excited about mining the conversations at CIL.