I like tag clouds and have just found Wordle – a playful service for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
It’s not a development of rocket science proportions – but what I like about it, is the ability to tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. I think that this might be very useful for the promotion of online collaterals – as an additional tool for online précis.
Here is a word cloud derived from a piece of collateral written for Salmon (where I work)
Word Cloud
Incidently the images you can 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.
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Yep -Wordle at first glance is just another fun 2.0 timesuck – but on second glance there’s a lot of potential in something like this – i wrote a little about my thoughts on it over at
http://alexanderhsimpson.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/wordle-art/
As soon as i plugged my Delicious username in there – instantly i saw trends laid out before me – that’s why i reckon this could even be used as part of a hiring process. I mean, there was all the obvious ones showed up in my links – marketing, joomla, twitter, analytics -all the stuff i do day to day, but then there’s smaller, lesser developed tags, like parenting, that i reckon will actually develop quite a bit!
(One other use can be seen in the header for my blog – and also is going to be the background for my new biz cards.
Keep up the great work!
Alex -S-
@ Alex. Thanks!
I really like your business card idea. They would provide very personal insight.
Chris
Incidentally – i forgot to mention if you print your creation as a PDF – it’s editable in PS or illustrator.
Thanks – do let me know how you got on with the business cards idea.
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