Wordle Fun

[R Douglas-Jones]

Hey everyone,

a friend introduced me to Wordle recently.
http://www.wordle.net/

For those of you who don't know it, wordle is an online application
that makes images of your text - the larger the word the more times
you used it in the passage. It ignores things like 'and' or 'the'.

It seems to take quite large sections of text, so you could put a
section (maybe even a chapter!) into it and see what the most
frequently used words are - and check if those are the ones you want
to be using, or overusing...
And apparently you don't need to worry about your text/thesis material
being saved anywhere - the program says :

"If you do not save your Wordle to the gallery, no information leaves
your workstation at any time. You may compose a Wordle, mess around
with fonts, layouts, colors, take a screenshot, print it out, without
ever sending any information over the network.

If you do save your Wordle to the gallery, then only the word
frequencies for the words that appear in the Wordle are sent. There's
no way to reconstruct the source text from that information. You have
to exercise your own judgement as to whether the Wordle you've created
exposes private information. Wordles cannot be deleted from the
gallery once created, as there are no authenticated users."

Have a look at the galleries too!


Enjoy -

Rachel :)