Just stumbled across Wordle<\/a>, a neat tag cloud\/text visualization tool, and am having way<\/em> too much fun.<\/p>\n

Some of my most common Flickr tags (click on the cloud to see it bigger on Wordle’s site):<\/p>\n

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The contents of the front page of my blog as of 3 July 2008:<\/p>\n

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I like how the latter captures our time in Spain quite nicely, and I really like how Wordle can intermingle the ascenders and descenders. Wordle can grind pretty hard on your CPU, but there are lots of neat options to play with and some very fun results to be had. w00t!<\/p>\n

Thanks to banned photography inc<\/a> for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just stumbled across Wordle, a neat tag cloud\/text visualization tool, and am having way too much fun. Some of my most common Flickr tags (click on the cloud to see it bigger on Wordle’s site): The contents of the front page of my blog as of 3 July 2008: I like how the latter captures … Continue reading “Wordle makes tag clouds all pretty”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[33,105,50,325,51,861],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-computing","tag-blog","tag-flickr","tag-graphics","tag-tags","tag-visualization","tag-writing"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-dH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":696,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/16\/the-power-of-good-visualization\/","url_meta":{"origin":849,"position":0},"title":"The power of good visualization","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"16 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"I just discovered The Gapminder, a very cool visualization tool created by Hans Rosling and others. 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