Sunday, April 12, 2009

Word Cloud for this blog

So I'm an obsessive reader of a Montreal-based blog called The Tragically Unhip, and one of their posts a while back was a wordle-generated word cloud. Basically, what the wordle-algorithm does is generate a cloud of words from a chunk of text, with the size of the words corresponding to their use. It's kind of a fun way to get the gist of a blog, essay or whatever.

So, here's the world cloud for the first page of Smile and Nod:

You can also click on the image to see it in a higher resolution.

I'm amazed at a few of the prominently-featured words here, especially "since", "etc" and Gitte. Also, I'm a little ashamed that "like" is featured so prominently. And what is up with "two"?

Anyway, I'll probably post a few more of these as the summer goes on, to see how the tone of the blog gradually changes from Indian to Dutch.

Cheers,
Gitte

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