anthropometaphors

For some time now, I’ve been admiring word clouds.  They are simple, ingenious ways to graphically depict word distribution for rapid communication.  Given my fondness for word clouds (and graphic visualizations in general) it should come as no surprise when I say: Wordle is better than Christmas.

Wordle creates word clouds from a snippet of text, url, feed aggreggator or del.icio.us user name.  The fun begins after the wordle has been generated; the user can customize their cloud with many available tweaks (i.e. font, color palette, organization, word exclusion).

Here’s the first wordle I created, based on the text of anthropometaphors:

wordle!

And here’s the second one (created after I posted the above bat entry):

same, same, but different