Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Word Clouds

Forgive me a somewhat frivolous post. All the cool kids are using Wordle to visualize their blogs' content as "word clouds."

Here is the result for American Creation as of July 22, 2008 (click to enlarge):

Here is the U.S. Constitution:


Washington's First Inaugural Address:
The Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom:


I'm excited about subjecting some seventeenth-century sermons to this process.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Weirdest definition of "cool" ever.

Jonathan Rowe said...

That's cool. Reminds of Lawrence Lessig's theory of "remix."