Word clouds

It's a different way of looking at text: Wordle, a new (and addictive) Web-based tool, turns any text into a word cloud (via TEDblog). Here is the Wordle version of my recent Wall Street Journal article about the Solar Impulse project:

Put in a list of tags (in this case, my del.icio.us tags) and here is the result:

And the lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine" produce this:

Comments

[Ellen Wallace]

Surely good for t-shirts: cloud shirts?

[CRI]

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/28585/JB_%26_Elina

Tks to U for giving us such great ideas and remembering that clouds are not only work or rain.... ;-)

Friends loved it, merci

[Jan Richards]

Great idea!

[katybird]

I just blogged about this, brilliant technology!

http://imnotlefthandedeither.blogspot.com/2009/01/word-clouds.html