Tool du jour: Worldle
As data and design continue to merge and blur, Wordle is a lovely little free visualization tool that uses clouds to display text. It is just like Delicious clouds, but you can use any text or URL. Plus, it is very very simple. Nothing Earth-shatteringly original, but it is very easy to use.
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
There are so many uses for this thing. Amongst others, I can imagine making short-format keyword-driven slides for presentations out of long-format text.
Spotted on Matt Parson's blog.
I've already thought of 101 uses for this thing.
Have fun.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Oh, a copywriter's dream!
PS. The word verification word for this comment was a word for when you haven't checked someone's blog for ages and when you do, you go down reading and commenting on every post like you were some kind of maniac' Oh no, hold on, I have it... the word verification word for this comment was 'commentalist' I thank you.
# posted by Hayes Thompson : 12:25 PM, November 05, 2008
I pick the verification words individually just to get under your skin, Hayes.
No, not really. ;-)
# posted by George Nimeh : 2:54 AM, November 10, 2008
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