Word Clouds

Have you noticed the word clouds on some blogs or websites? According to Wikipedia, a tag cloud or word cloud "(or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites." Wordle is a program was created by Jonathan Feinstein, an employee of IBM.

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."

The wordle below is from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.