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		<title>Stack Overflow Tag Cloud Greasemonkey Script</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stack Overflow is great and I&#8217;m a big fan of the site. However, I&#8217;m not such a big fan of their tags page: Because the tags are ordered solely by popularity and not alphabetically, I find it a bit awkward trying to find a tag I am interested in e.g. if you want to find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/">Stack Overflow</a> is great and I&#8217;m a big fan of the site. However, I&#8217;m not such a big fan of their tags page:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/screenshot-tags-stack-overflow.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-131" title="screenshot-tags-stack-overflow" src="http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/screenshot-tags-stack-overflow-300x225.png" alt="screenshot-tags-stack-overflow" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Because the tags are ordered solely by popularity and not alphabetically, I find it a bit awkward trying to find a tag I am interested in e.g. if you want to find JavaScript it could be located anywhere in the list.</p>
<p>Admittedly there is a search function to help you find tags but I wanted to be able to scan the list more easily and pick out the tags that interest me most. So, to <a href="http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Whats_Your_Problem.php">scratch my own itch</a>, I created a <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748">Greasemonkey</a> script to transform the current tags page into a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud">tag cloud</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/screenshot-tags-stack-overflow-greasemonkey.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-132" title="screenshot-tags-stack-overflow-greasemonkey" src="http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/screenshot-tags-stack-overflow-greasemonkey-300x225.png" alt="screenshot-tags-stack-overflow-greasemonkey" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Because the tags are in alphabetical order with their font size weighted according to popularity, I find it much easier to find tags I am interested in.</p>
<p>Try it out for yourself and see what you think:</p>
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<li>Install <a href="http://www.strongasanox.co.uk/greasemonkey/stackoverflow-tag-cloud.user.js">stackoverflow-tag-cloud.user.js</a></li>
<li>Install via <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55201">userscripts.org</a></li>
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<p>And if you have any suggestions for improvements, please leave a comment.</p>
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