Time for Wordle

I learned about Wordle from this post by Renny Gleeson. Wordle converts text into beautiful word clouds and sizes the words according to their frequency in the content. I think it is an interesting way to see the emphasis in a text -- on the ideas and concepts that are driving the text. two examples below. The first is the text from the RNC's website home page, the second from the DNC front page.





Want to emphasize I am not making a political statement here as the comparison is apples to oranges. GOP.gov uses graphics much more heavily than Democrats.org, which throws the issues counts. Just thought the two sites would make timely illustrations of how it works.

You can do it with any text, change the colors, directions of the words, and a number of other things. I think this could be a really interesting presentation tool to demonstrate emphases in the blogosphere, etc.