Just came across this on Martin Weller’s excellent Ed Techie blog.
You cut and paste a piece of text or put in the URL for a website that has a RSS or Atom feed and it generates a cloud of the most used words (excluding the really common ones like prepositions and articles). It’s a bit like the tag cloud you get on blogs but for a whole body of text.
It would be an excellent reflective tool for essay writing or analysing a body of poetry, maybe also as a starting point for creative writing.
Just as an example, here’s what you get if you put the Electric Chalk URL into Wordle (click thumbnail to see full size)…
Interestingly, the word “education” doesn’t figure as much as “PDA’s”. Think I’d better stop ranting about them!
Some issues - The Safari browser I’m using doesn’t like the Java application so try IE or Firefox. Also, when embedding the HTML it needs to be all on one line, not as published on the Wordle site which has line breaks.
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