November 1, 2006

Backstage: Get with the Program

Posted in: Software, Tech

There was a neat idea recently on the BBC backstage list to produce a tag cloud of words in subject lines. There was an implementation of this but as usual with almost everything posted on Backstage no code.

It's frustrating that the BBC go to all the trouble of making their data available and then developers horde their little snippets of code. I just don't understand it. Big kudos to MighTyV who do open source their code. And deservedly won the BBC Backstage competition.

So, without further ado, some code to implement tag clouds off mailing list subject lines:

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