Wordle me this, Batman

If you like tag clouds, you will enjoy Wordle.

As the site says:

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.

Jonathan Feinberg and his colleagues at the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab are behind this amusing and creative diversion, which I learned about from Tara Rodden Robinson.

I made these Wordles using the URL for this blog. Pretty much the same words show up, but I changed the font, color scheme, and layout style. Oh, and for the one with a white background, I added a little border.

Create your own Wordle using a URL, or from text you enter, or from a del.icio.us user's bookmarks at http://www.wordle.net/

Comments

[mossum]

Nifty!