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Word Clouds

I am back from Georgia with plenty of stories to tell and plenty of pictures to show, but not just yet. I'm completely worn out, and I have other tasks to perform before I can sit down and write a real blog post—my poor lot in Blogville has no more than 25 or 30 visitors a day lately, and I have only myself to blame. I haven't been very hospitable, but I'll set out the welcome mat soon and invite you all over for tea.

In the mean time, go make a word cloud. After I saw a word cloud of President Obama's State of the Union 2011 address, I found this site online. It's called Wordle, and it generates the things from just about anything—a presidential speech, a newspaper article or a blog. I ran the sagging Just Sayin' through it, and this is what happened:

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dive said…
Oooh, tea! I'll bring cookies.

That's a pretty good word cloud, Robyn. It says nothing but good things about you.
5:37 AM
kyle@sift said…
I do love the word cloud.
3:51 PM
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