Fun toy - Wordle

posted by nblevins on Friday, October 17, 2008


I was going through my feeds this morning and ran across a pretty nifty toy, Wordle.Net.  Basically, it makes a tag cloud of any type of text that you paste into it.  More importantly, you can give it the link to your RSS feed and it will make a "Wordle Image" based on what is in your feed.  It is not particularly useful in any way, but it makes a very cool image.  At the very least, you discover what you talk about the most, ;). 

What's your Wordle?

wordle.net



Comments

Friday, October 17, 2008
That is really neat!!!
Comment By: Crystal Blevins

Interesting what shows up...
Friday, October 17, 2008
I am still trying to decide whether its cool or lame that the biggest tag I have is my wife's name. Sadly, I don't think that I see any tags that involve programming, lol. My original intent for this blog was to use it as a tutorial / library for my programming stuff, but programming posts just take so darn long to make.

A few other insights:

1) I use "pretty much", ALOT...
2) I over use adverbs / "ly words" - finally, totally, basically, actually, really, compeltely, usually

Oh well.
Comment By: Nathan

Says a lot about the way you write
Friday, October 17, 2008
I plugged in both my RSS feed and my blog. I think the former is heavily skewed by the fact that I use "summaries" with "More..." links for many posts in my RSS; the later is heavily skewed by what posts are showing on my front page.

That said, it's pretty telling that "something" is a huge word every time I randomize a tag cloud for my blog's front page.
Comment By: Dylan Wolf

I wonder...
Friday, October 17, 2008
@Dylan - I wonder what the tag cloud would be for Chainsaw Buffet? It would have the potential for being horribly awesome... Gotta try it out later, lol. Also, for the love of pete, ditch the "More..." link. It drives me crazy because it basically renders any RSS reader useless.

As a general rule (which expections including your sites), I don't even follow blogs that use the summary logic for their blogs. It just plain sucks. If you really like it though, you could always make 2 feeds, one for full - one for part... :)
Comment By: Nathan

RSS Feeds
Friday, October 17, 2008
Yeah, I've stopped writing summaries for my blog posts anymore. Honestly, I did that so I wouldn't cram so much on my home page or on KnoxBloggers.com, but I'm not sure KnoxBloggers.com is even updating anymore.

Chainsaw Buffet... well, I think that's a necessity at some level. It's got the option for each article to have multiple pages, plus I'm probably the only one using absolute URLs for links and images in articles.
Comment By: Dylan Wolf

looking...
Friday, October 24, 2008
...for my name in there. Somewhere? Anywhere?....
Cmon, man, you need to write more posts with my name in them.
.w
Comment By: Wes

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