Friday Fun: Wordle Text Clouds!
Jim over at my favorite personal finance blog introduced me to the fun world of wordles! Check out this Wordle Cloud of One Project Closer’s RSS feed. It definitely gives a great visual of our last few topics…
So who’s up for a little Friday fun? Create your own wordle and post it to your site, then leave a comment here with the link to your page! To make it a little more interesting, I’ll tag four of you (so then you HAVE to do it!!!). How about: Amy at Green Gardenista, Jennifer at Tiny Old House, Josh at Bungalow 23, and Mary at Not Before 7. Feel free to respond even if you weren’t tagged, or to pass the tag along to a few others!
Good luck with your weekend projects! It looks like we’ll probably be sanding some more stipple on Saturday–this time in the kitchen. It makes such a big difference in the room…
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September 5th, 2008 10:33 am
[...] over at One Project Closer tagged me in his latest Friday Fun post about Wordle content clouds. Unlike some cloud tools I’ve seen, Wordle provides a lot of [...]
September 6th, 2008 12:55 am
I plugged in my mad rantings: http://jonmcdougal.blogspot.com/2008/09/tfte-gets-wordle-ed.html
Wish I could feed it more content directly. Parsing the last 30 days gives it a slant toward the current happenings.
Interesting find. Good distraction.
-J
September 6th, 2008 4:11 pm
Love both of your Wordles… I’ve been playing with ours a little more too. I particularly like Jon’s because it has “Gustav” prominently in it… I wonder what would happen if you pointed it to the NY Times or Fox News
September 6th, 2008 9:35 pm
I added mine…
http://tinyoldhouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/wordles-on-furnace-filters-and-such.html
September 6th, 2008 11:19 pm
Jennifer- yours is great too! I actually took a screenshot in windows and used my graphics program to crop it. If you run windows, pressing alt-printscreen will copy a picture of the active window to the clipboard. Then, you can paste it into any graphics program and save it as a .png file.
September 7th, 2008 3:15 pm
Ah… I have a Mac, and there’s no screen shot option! That explains it. I would have to save the screenshot as a PDF and then do the cropping. I’ll remember that next time.
September 7th, 2008 7:42 pm
Gonna post mine tomorrow…not sure I’ll do so much fun stuff as you all are doing. Wow…!
September 7th, 2008 8:14 pm
@Jennifer, I’m also a Mac user. Check your “Utilities” folder for a program called Grab. It will take a picture of your screen. I think it’s a real handy program.