Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Alia Sheikh wrote: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ Not all that late, as far as I can see - nothing particularly new (I have a backstage tag cloud tshirt somewhere...) but a nice and simple way of playing with

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

Alia, Thanks for posting that. They are quite interesting and pretty word clouds. I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. They also seem a usability nightmare... I'm guessing there is probably some

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

I just realised that these are just pictures, the don't actually do anything... 2008/6/19 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alia, Thanks for posting that. They are quite interesting and pretty word clouds. I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. Probably shortly after Jeffry Zeldman described them as the mullet of web 2.0 ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

yup, 'fraid so:) I just rather liked it wikipedia gets you any number of more useful ones under Tag Cloud Tools and Articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud Alia Brian Butterworth wrote: I just realised that these are just pictures, the don't actually do anything... 2008/6/19

[backstage] cool visualisation thing for text

So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ It's 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,