Thanks to a the Chicago Public Radio blog (specifically Josh Andrews) for the coolest thing of the moment: Wordle. You can submit any text or any blog feed to produce a visual image of the text, with more commonly used words appearing larger. As Josh points out, “while it may seem kind of trivial at first, it could be really useful in cutting through the rhetoric of political speeches, historical documents, or even your term paper.”
Here’s a Wordie of recent posts to this blog (click to read).
