Wordle is Sort of Fun
My friend Juliana showed me Wordle the other day and I’ve sort of enjoyed playing around with it. I say “sort of” because it doesn’t exactly work the way I want.
With Wordle, you enter a URL (for your blog or your del.icio.us page or whatever) and it produces a word cloud that you can tweak. You can choose from a bunch of fonts, colors and layouts, making it fun to play with as you match your cloud to your mood or style. However, you can’t input different pages of a site or specific posts on your blog (or at least I can’t). It only chooses words from the most recent couple of posts on your home page, regardless of whether you enter a specific page or not.
This is annoying for me because sometimes I blog about things that are sort of random. (OK, I pretty much always do…) When I first tried Wordle, all my words had to do with my recent post about honey bees and ice cream, so I felt my Wordle cloud wasn’t all that representative of my blog or myself. And I like customized Web 2.0 toys to represent mah style, yo. Don’t you?
Anyway, here’s my current Wordle cloud anyway. Sort of fun, sort of whatever. Try it out.
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I decided to make one off of status.twitter.com. Notice how 3 words on the outskirts and in the smallest font include “reliable”, “reliability”, “restore”, and “resolved”.
Best summary of the blog ever.
[...] learned of this cool site Wordle.net. Originally heard of it from Amanda at Social Honeycomb, and just had to check it out. Basically, it allows you to create a word cloud that either pulls [...]
Catching on up on the reader and came across your post. Thanks for sharing. Agree with you though. Not exactly what I thought, but sort of fun.
Brilliant!