Who says typography can't be fun and informative at the same time? I found a cyber playground for words! There's a fabulous tool called WordLe that takes a RSS feed or a body of text to create a "Word Cloud". WordLe gets heavy traffic because it's so popular, so it loads slowly during peak hours.
So if you're having trouble accessing the site, here's the description from the homepage:
So if you're having trouble accessing the site, here's the description from the homepage:
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.Here's what I created using the feed from my second entry, "Power of Words". Pretty cool, huh?
very cool!