Thanks to Brian over at The Cheek of God, I discovered a nifty & free little web-based "toy" by Jonathan Feinberg called Wordle.

Wordle generates very snazzy "word clouds" — a visual depiction that gives greater weight or prominence to words that appear more frequently in the provided source text — and lets you tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, color schemes, & more.   It may seem like just a fun time-waster at first blush, but I think you can glean a bit of useful insight with this tool;   Since it prominantly highlights your most commonly-used words, you may discover some interesting vocabulary trends within your writings.

I plugged in a sampling of 2Dolphins posts from the past 2-3 months and here’s the result:

2Dolphins word cloud from Wordle

This reminds me of the Which Words Do You Own? study that I submitted our blog to last year.   It’s interesting to see the difference in the word cloud from back then vs. this current one from Wordle.
 

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