Fun With Wordle

June 17, 2008 4:30pm by Barry Ritholtz

Fun little Java applet that let’s you create a word cloud based on any text (including a blog post).

I did 3:

1) Our earlier discussion on Sentiment:

2) Last months Guide for NYC Tourists:

3) A full four years worth of Real Estate & Housing related posts:

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Ed H commented on Jun 17

I saw the same thing on a blog called “Digital Inspiration.”

http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/quickly-analyze-long-text-generate-tag-clouds/3582/

Very cool stuff.
daveNYC commented on Jun 17

That last one has HTTP, Trackback, Digg, and Permalink. Meh.
Carl Wied commented on Jun 18

Cool! Can you post a link to the java applet?
JD commented on Jun 18

Its at http://wordle.net/.
JL commented on Jun 18

Brand Tags does the something similar but focuses on clouds for various brands.

Here’s Citi’s:

http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=111
constantnormal commented on Jun 18

daveNYC — doesn’t that simply show the truth behind Marshall McLuhan’s “the medium is the message”?

That’s what struck me about it, anyway — about the best example of that meme I’ve seen.

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