$10 to get a downloadable O'Reilly "booklet" on Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP? Seriously? Is there an army of developers desperately seeking to make "tag clouds" out of weighted lists but can't figure out how to do it? If I didn't know better, I would think that they are trying to punk 37signals.
I haven't read it. Looking at the large cover image, it seems they managed to get 46+ pages of content on the topic of "tag clouds" (maybe they used those old high school paper tricks such as bigger fonts and bigger line spacing). So, it could be that it is filled with useful insight into all things tag cloud-ish; but I'll never know...
Update
It seems that O'Reilly has a section with about a dozen or so of these downloadable PDFs ranging in price from $5 to $10. I had never seen that before. (I still stand by my initial reaction when seeing the price tag for this one, though.)
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I think they're actually trying to punk the Pragmatic Programmers Fridays.
They've "borrowed" the beta book concept as well.