The second 13things article is now published. Zach Young gives a great explanation as to the uses and mis-uses of an often neglected html element. You should go check it out.
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We’ve all seen tag clouds. I even considered putting one on my site, but I realized that tag clouds don’t really look nice. The other day I discovered Wordle.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
I started playing about with it and was quite impressed. I put in the RSS feed for this site and my delicious bookmarks.
They way Wordle displays the collected words is rather interesting. More so then just a straight tag cloud. Now to create something like this on the fly and embed it on a site…
Yup. I’m going.
And for $20 who wouldn’t? That’s a steal. For 12 speakers in one day. Oh hell yes. And I think I get a t-shirt out of it.
