Wordy
So most of the web design/development jargon usually goes over my head. All that html code is usually just gibberish to me. But I do like that I have started to think a little more about how websites look and why the designer/developer might have picked certain features, even if I don’t understand how it all works.
I also like finding cool stuff on the Internet that is easy for anyone to use, including me. Have you guys heard of Wordle? It was created by Jonathan Feinberg of IBM Research. Much like a “tag cloud,” it creates a word cloud based on entered text, giving prominence to words that appear more frequently. You can change the font, color, word orientation to make the perfect cloud.
As someone who loves words, I like seeing them used in a creative way. I like the idea of stripping everything else away and getting a pretty clear visual representation of the essential ingredients of a song, a speech, or, quite literally, a recipe.
I created this Wordle using my previous blog posts. Pretty neat, huh? It’d be cool to see what some of our other bloggers' tag clouds look like. It might help us understand each other a little better.