Monday, January 12, 2009

Wordle

I just added a really cool 2.0 feature from Wordle. 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. If you decide to play with Wordle you'll need to sign up and can use your same username as you used for the 23Things blog. Wordle is like flickr in that anything you create on it is posted on the net and to use or import those images you grab them on that site. Wordle is a bit cumbersome because you cannot just copy and past what you create. You either have to post it through html on your blog or use a screenshot and save it through as a jpeg through Photoshop. The latter option is way too complicated for me today but I'm going to try doing it soon.

1 comment:

  1. I would love to hear when you master Wordle. I thought of lots of places where it might be fun to use it but couldn't get past not being able to cut and paste my text easily. Maybe this will motivate me.

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