Monday, April 2, 2012

Forecast: New types of Clouds

Word clouds have been around for some time already. I've seen them in all sorts of places. Just now I was introduced to Tagxedo (word cloud on the left). I compared Tagxedo with Wordle using the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I've used Wordle several times and it's great. But I think Tagxedo is going to make the top ten in my list of webtools. What is so great about Tagxedo is that you can make the wordcloud in any shape you want. This allows you to bring extra meaning to the image. It's really worth playing around with it! Have fun!