June 26, 2008
Google Books has provided me endless hours of enjoyment. Sure, the collection seems to consist mainly of old, out of copyright books, but that makes it even more enticing. It is like a fine used-book store, without the musty smell. Imagine. It is late at night, and the library is closed and Amazon cannot deliver [...]
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June 26, 2008
We’ve all seen tag clouds by now, the visualization technique that shows the importance (however defined, but typically by prevalence) of a word by assigning a proportionately sized font. But now comes along a tool that treats these clouds as art. Wordle’s “Beautiful Word Clouds” is quite addictive, allowing you to enter the raw text [...]
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