DigiPoem is described as generating simple visual embellishments of poetry and other text sources using image tagging on flickr. You have four categories to be interpreted with images to choose from; Poetry, Haiku, Lyrics and Text. Text is you have the option of writing something of your own. In the Poetry category you choose one of the 10 poems they have available. If you click on the Haiku tab you get a random Haiku interpreted with pictures. With the Lyrics feature you type in the name of a song and its author to view song lyrics.
The site was very easy to use but extremely limited. You can only pick from ten poems and you get random haikus that don’t even make sense. I even typed in numerous songs from oldies to current hits, and the search was unsuccessful, the search always came back as zero matches found. Their song archive must be very limited.
It’s a neat idea, but very undeveloped and inaccurate. The images tagged poorly represent the word they are supposed to display visually. An example of this would be the word “toucan”. The word was matched up with a picture of hand-drawn zoo animals? Why wouldn’t they simply tag a picture of a toucan?
It fits well with web 2.0 ideas. It’s allowing you to interact by typing in your own text and allowing the site to interpret it with pictures. It is also using image tagging and teaming up with flickr to retrieve their images from their site. I think this tool/site was poorly developed and if someone took the time to do it right it would be a lot more interesting and useful!
You can visit the site at: http://www.dudeyjon.com/digipoem/
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That does sound disappointing. It would be neat if you could put in a poem or haiku you've written and see what kind of visual embellishments come up. At the very least they should have more than 10 poems. It sounds maybe like a project that someone started and then abandoned before really developing it (happens sometimes with Web 2.0).
Yeah it does sound pretty bad. I guess it's an interesting idea? Too bad the poems don't make sense and there's only ten of them.
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