Digg s Popular Stories as a Word Cloud (using the Digg API) This experiment uses the Digg API to get the latest 100 popular stories on Digg, then does some neato AI to guess a single word title to represent each story, and displays them all as a cloud. The purpose is to explore useful ways of presenting a large number of links in a small space. with 3actionscriptas3clouddesignflashguitag Note: Digg s Popular Stories as a Word Cloud (using the Digg API)
Stories with Longer Titles Get More Diggs (with Graph, from 233K stories) Using the Digg API, I collected the titles and number of diggs from 233,570 stories. Then I made a histogram of the average number of diggs vs. length of story title. This histogram shows very clearly that stories with longer titles get more diggs. with digg