Building Gorgeous Word Clouds with Wordle

I’m having fun with Wordle, a web app that takes text you give it and turns it into gorgeous word clouds, where the size of the word is based on its frequency. Since talking about pretty pictures is akin to dancing about architecture, let me just show you some of Wordle’s output based on some of my favourite blog entries.

Here’s the Wordle-generated word cloud for my blog entry titled Worst Date Ever, Part 5:

With a change of font, Wordle created a very nice cloud for the story about Julie and Amanda, A Craigslist Wedding:

And finally, here’s the Wordle-generated cloud for Assrockets and Opportunities, the essay behind my decision to leave a comfy job and go work at a startup:

If you’ve got some text, go give Wordle a try!