A picture worth about 250 words
Working much like the category cloud you see in the right column of your browser window, in which categories with more related posts receive greater size and prominence, Wordle is ‘a toy for generating word clouds’. It takes a slab of text, either typed/pasted in or uploaded as a file, and creates quite beautiful word pictures by giving greater emphasis to more frequent words.
As an example, here’s my recent doctrine essay, on the relationship between the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the church:
In this one, I like it how ‘divine’, ‘perichoretic’, and ‘persons’ are all clustered together. Random, but nice.
Wordle provides some rudimentary controls for tweaking the layout, colour, and font. It’s quite fun playing around to create something that looks quite appealing, and actually communicates quite a lot of information.
See if you can guess what my sermon for this Sunday is about:
[UPDATE: Justin proposes the wordle test for sermons; Michael puts his PhD through its paces.]
Check mine out:
Who’s a Barthian now?
Ah ha! I’ve figured out how html works (I think)!
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Talk on Luke 12:16-21
Mike
is my doctrine essay on the relationship between justification and sanctification. Tis a little interesting.
So Mike – what was your essay about again? I’m unsure from looking at the picture…
Thanks for the link…
I used Wordle the other week for the current series slide at Project Church Worked out really nice. Good web app.