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Thursday, June 19, 2008 (11:37 am)

Katrina AdamsWordle

Posted by: Katrina Adams In: Web 2.0

I had to do a quick post on this b/c it’s just too cool to only post in Jaiku about. Wordle takes text and creates a word cloud out of it.

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.

So, I took my resume, copy/pasted the content into Wordle, and out popped my Wordle resume…

wordle-resume

So basically, you can take a document and quickly see what concepts you focus on. Definitely interesting. (Thanks Jeremy!)

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3 Responses to "Wordle"

1 | Katrina Adams

June 19th, 2008 at 11:59 am

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Ok, not to go off on a tangent … and a political one at that … but I couldn’t help but compare speeches by Obama and McCain. Draw your own conclusions. I just thought it was interesting to see how they compare/differ.

Barack Obama – ‘Change That Works For You’ (June 9, 2008)
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John McCain – ‘A Leader We Can Believe In’ (June 3, 2008)
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2 | Matt Crosslin

June 19th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

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My conclusion is that they talk about each other too much….

3 | Katrina Adams

July 30th, 2008 at 11:27 am

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Y’know, I can’t believe that I didn’t ‘wordle’ our EGJ website! Well, here it is, folks… http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/97293/EduGeek_Journal

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