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2.7 1000 BleepingComputer.com blogs categories CCS Coltrane Conscientious contest CSS CT-MATH Derivatrix DLSU EASE@Haven ELECOMM ENGLRES GearLive giveaway HP INTROSE iPhone istartedsomething jQuery laptop MICPRC1 Microsoft Mini Multiply Neowin netbook portfolio resolution tags themes touchscreen Twitter vacation web width WordPressHundreds, but not thousands.
What you are looking at right now is not a mosaic of a blue-green-colored watermelon, nor is it a large pit of death of words. This is simply a word cloud, kinda similar to the tag/category cloud you see at the very bottom of this page, and its purpose is to highlight the words that are frequently used in a selection. The selection is - you’ve guessed it - everything in this site. I’m feeling narcissistic already. (Not the disease, but I really wouldn’t mind if I had one.)
This graphic is made on Wordle. (I’ve attributed you and your service now, so don’t cry - or run to your lawyers - about it anymore, okay? So we’re good?) It’s quite easy to manipulate the colors, text, things like that, so thank them for having the blue-green text of awesome right in front of your faces. Oh, and have you noticed the most frequently used word I’m using? Yeah. Now I can prove to others that I can sound like an L.A. dude, without being an L.A. dude! Like, it’s not obvious that I’m doing this for, like, a lot of times already. So interesting.
Going off topic here - but I’m doing this in the middle of a final examinations week. Who in the right mind, or with the [rare] common sense, would do such nonsense? That’s right - me. I’m born to do things with perfect timing. Or lack thereof.
And I’m taking back my first statement. It does look like a blue-green-colored watermelon.
Comments (3)
gwen • August 29th, 2008 at 10:17 am
MMM. I wish I could eat that watermelon. Looks big! 
Gaah. You made me HUNGRY! XD
DOn • August 30th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Any chance I can get more info on the cloud plugin (assuming it’s a widget or plugin)? I’d like to play with it on my blog as well!?
Don
JMacalinao • August 31st, 2008 at 10:13 am
What cloud? Considering there are two here, I’ll explain both.
The cloud in this post is made through Wordle (http://wordle.net); it’s not a plugin, but it’s an easy web service.
On the other hand, the categories cloud below is a non-widget version of the Categories Cloud Widget, found in WordPress Plugins (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins). Both versions of it are in there.