Word salad

In the mid noughties the expression “Web 2.0” became prominent – referring essentially to participatory web presences in the form of wikis, blogs, folksonomies, and social media in general. Before long it triggered an irritating stylistic trope of the form “Anything 2.0” and “Everything 2.0”. Thankfully that form of expression has gone the way of all things nerdy.

However, one of the more useful products from around that time – although it had precursors – was the so-called tag cloud, namely the spatial display of terms, arrayed in varying sizes, colours and fonts, in an attempt to indicate semantic relationships and key ideas of varying importance. They became quite a design meme of that era, and they still persist.

Here is an example, one appropriate to a pleasant English bank holiday weekend, combining my love of information science with my love of (occasionally healthy) food.

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Enjoy