Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Word Clouds

So, gang, we're going to play with word clouds today.  Here are two word clouds: one for this blog, and one for my other blog, Stoner at the Movies.

Wordle: Untitled

Wordle: Untitled

Well, it's nice to know that the most often words in my movie blog are "movie" and "film".  This seems appropriate, while the rest of the words in that cloud are mostly actor names or movie titles, or common things I analyze in movies.  As for this blog, it seems kind of all across the board.  "Like" and "share" are huge, but that makes me seem like a Facebook page.  I also use the word "seem" a lot, which probably means that the things I"m talking about are things that I am just recently forming opinions on, and therefore I don't have concrete opinions or judgements of them yet.  Past that the next biggest titles are all of the different tools we've used in our different exercises. 

Though I don't find this exercise particularly helpful with these two blogs, I can see how it would come in handy when trying to find specific content within a convoluted webpage, or to see which words you use too often in order to make sure that your prose is diverse.  If I kept a professional blog this is certainly something I would check from time to time as a precaution against my prose becoming too formulaic or stale.  Other than that I can't think of too many relevant applications, though it is another fun thing that I enjoy fiddling around with.

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