List News: The Words of Our Community as Art
Christopher Roy | Dec 03, 2009
Wordles are a tool for generating “word clouds” from content within SaltSpringCommunity.com and from the SaltSpringCommunity.com List. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear most frequently. You can see some interesting rhythms in language that the community here on the island are using to describe what we’re interested in, what is happening, what we’re looking for, what we’ve found, etc. Here are some examples of our community “word cloud” art;
SaltSpringCommunity.com Postings – November, 2009
50 Random Messages Sent to the SaltSpringCommunity.com List – November 2009
art is everywhere! it’s beautiful….
Wow, who’s brainchild was this? An amazing snippet of the list posts. I especially like “obo”…
I have always loved “wordart”. This is lovely.
PLEASE, is there twice….
may I add “THANK YOU” ?!
Where is “mattress?”
Hahahaha. Mattress really should be in there in bold. Must have picked 50 random non-mattress emails for the sample.
These are available for anyone to create at http://wordle.net
Note that their terms of use require that you link back to their site, if you want to post your results.