Via the always resourceful Wicked Anomie, I discovered Wordle, which will create “word clouds” out of pasted-in text or a blog feed. Here’s what it made of an article based on my dissertation:
That basically does say it all. We should be able to submit dissertations in Wordle format, don’t you think?
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My thought was that this would make an awesome cover liner for the inside of a book.
Totally! And then if all books had them, you could scan the cover liner and see what was in store. More fun than an index. Btw, I can’t make your breakfast outing in Boston because I’m presenting at that time, but are you going to the scatterparty? I need to know I’ll have at least one imaginary friend there to overcome my shyness.
God, I wish I could just put my whole self into Wordle. It would have saved me my entire twenties and most of what I spent on drugs.
Hahahaha. I am hesitating about Wordle-ing this blog, because I’m nervous to discover how largely TV and Myself will be displayed.
I just wordled my blog. The biggest tags are ‘cookie’ and ‘happy.’ I’m four.
I wordled my blog, but it looked like they just did the main page. Waitress was one of the bigger words, and I only talked about waitresses recently.
I will be at the ScatterParty! And I’m thinking about trying for a different or second time for students to meet up. Turns out my co-blogger can’t make the Friday brunch either. She just got her schedule in the mail for the Honors Program, and there’s a conflict
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ah, i love that thing! i use it for poems sometimes.
do they take out “and” and “a” and “the” and stuff? that’s what i was asked when i tried to introduce wordle to my swedish contacts.
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