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June 20, 2008

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:

Wordle1solarimpulse

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

Wordle2delicious

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

Wordle3imagine

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It's called Wordle and it turns every text into a word cloud. [hat tip to Bruno Giussani] Let's run an experiment, shall we? Take a communication or marketing piece you have written and run it through Worlde. What is the corresponding word cloud? Does ... [Read More]

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Surely good for t-shirts: cloud shirts?

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

Great idea!

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