I’ve been watching the Wordle clouds floating their way through the blogosphere for a few days now, and I’ve been curious to see how Wordle, paired up with del.icio.us tags, a blog, or any other big collection of words, gives people a chance to see what they’ve been writing and thinking about in (potentially) new ways. (Wordle, if you haven’t seen it, takes any collection of words, or your del.icio.us links, and produces a tag cloud, with the words used most often appearing in the largest text.)
So, on a whim, I popped in the text for all of our posts here on WUB:
No surprise that wikis, blogging, and podcasting came up big. I was quite happily surprised, however, to see the word “students” right there, front and center, as the largest word in the cloud. We like to think that we’re putting students first in our ruminations here, but I think only through Wordle would I have realized that, so far at least, we have been!
Next up, my del.icio.us links:
Wow. Looks like I’m a bit behind on my “readthis” reading list. Clearly I’m using del.icio.us as a place to store all the things I wish I had time to read, try, and write about. It is also interesting to see that here, Drupal has eclipsed blogs, wikis, and podcasting. Del.icio.us seems to provide a somewhat more technical “behind the scenes” view.
And then, out of curiosity , my CV:
Oh good, “learning” “teaching” and “technology” are all quite prominent. But interestingly, “Spring” appears much larger than “Fall” - am I more productive in the Spring? And too bad it split up “San” and “Francisco.” So too for “Long” and “Beach.”
What do you think, could a wordle make a good resume? Could these three images - of my collaboratively authored blog, my del.icio.us links, and my CV - provide a short-cut, of sorts, to seeing the things I’ve been doing and thinking about? What else might I include? Should I have mashed them all together into one mega-Wordle?
Seen any other interesting wordles out there?
Let WUB know in the comments!
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