A wordle
Thanks to Cedric for posting his Wordle and cluing me into what a Wordle was. 
I thought that this would be a good experiment. Basically, a Wordle is just a text cloud, picking out the most used words in a blog. You can generate your own Wordle here.
I’m not really quite sure how deeply the algorithm mines a blog, but it returned pretty quickly, so I would imagine that it didn’t go much deeper than a page. Also, I experimented with it giving various URLs that probed deeper into my blog, but it always came back with the same set up words; those presented here.
It’s all fun anyway. I rather liked the way that Zen appeared in there, but don’t particularly care for the size of opinion or the appearance of the word crap. In all fairness, though, I did use the word “Crap” in one post were I was poking fun at myself for missing some shots. 
Update – 2010-01-21: Thanks to Cedric for giving suggestions on how to include more content. I went back and redid my Wordle for content from the past 30 days. It cause the Wordle to change quite a bit. I suppose I could have gone back a year, but just wanted to see what my ‘thoughts’, or words were for the past 30 days.
Paul, I’ve seen some of your camera selection advice to newbies. Here’s THE brand new P/S to consider: the Canon S90. Wow. Been waiting for this one.
For 6-7 years I’ve carried only a point and shoot Canon. The bulkier cameras had more features but I always had a camera with me. I missed having aperture and shutter control, ISO low light capabilities, bracketing and shooting RAW. Now my tiny camera has all that, a larger sensor and an f2.0 lens. Yikes.
Have you checked one out yet?
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Paul Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Chuck: That looks like a sweet camera. I’ll have to do some reading on it. I’ve tried cameras without viewfinders and think that it would take me some getting used to.
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After reading this blog, I created my own Wordle. I have a question: how did you post yours?
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Paul Reply:
January 21st, 2010 at 6:11 am
I did a screen shot of it using Command + control + Shift + 4, created a new Photoshop document, pasted it there, then saved it as a JPEG.
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Paul, Wordle will only look at whatever is on the first page of a blog. There are two ways you can make it see more, 1) change the settings on your blog to show more entries on the front page even if it’s only temporary while you do the Wordle or 2) copy all the text from your blog entries and paste them in the text box provided on the Wordle site. The second option is more time consuming but it will analyse all the entries. I’m not sure if the text box has a limit but if it does I haven’t found it
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I played around with creating wordles for what Twitter was wittering about, finding out what people were ‘afraid’ of on a given day and that sort of thing. Was interesting to see the trends come and go.
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Great, all I need is more toys! But how fun!
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