I was browsing sun’s blogs, when I was pointed at wordle, for the first time. This produces word maps from feed URLs. You can see a view of mine below, it was taken earlier today.
Wordle is (cc) Attribution only, so I need to say the picture above is produced by wordle.net [site | faq ].
Its a Java App so sadly, I had to screen-scrape the full size picture, and so generating one per article is too much of a fag, and hard to do ; they use the feed and so see many articles. Word mapping is becoming a powerful tool, but this needs to be licensed by the blog publisher to be included as part of the blog server functionality. I think we’d want clouds/article and clouds/blog. I thought I’d check out what happens if one uses a feed, so I also did one on planetsun.org. See below.
It suggests to me that wordle has a fairly short view back in history.
Of course both my blog and the sun bloggers site have hyperlinked tag clouds, which again diminished the use of wordle.
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Originally, posted on my sun/oracle blog, reposted in July 2016 with the images restored.
The links on this site are now dead. Alternatives may be found using the search argument, “Word Clouds”.