WordWorks on Tag Clouds

WordWorks has an interesting deep dive on tag clouds. There are plenty of examples in the post of different approaches to tag clouds and their various merits. Interestingly, all of these examples are for reasonably well behaved tags (atomic symbols). I'd love to get an opinion on the nightmares of multi-word tags, morphology and so on.

On a related note, due to the broken nature of tags, Technorati (and possibly other tag search services) have to tokenize the tags to index the tagged posts in blogs (actually, the don't have to, but they do). This means that you can search for the 'tag' the and get a result. Great: I think I really need to know what people are saying about the these days - is it an emergent tag I wonder? After all the debates about the value of a free, unconstrained tagging space, the fact that you can implicitly tag posts with contentless words says alot.