Monday, September 1, 2008

I can't define it - but I know it when I see it.

Okay - dig this.


I stumbled across this site called Wordle. Turns loads of words into "word clouds". This one is comprised of all the comments from the Blind Review Friday posting with the Piercy poem.


Instant poetry.

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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 1, 2008 at 10:39 PM

    Cool! I'll have to play with it. ;)

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  2. pottygokSeptember 2, 2008 at 10:09 AM

    I like that POEM is big and bold and smack dab in the center.

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  3. Theresa Göttl BrightmanSeptember 2, 2008 at 10:15 AM

    this might become my new favorite game :)

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  4. pottygokSeptember 2, 2008 at 10:28 AM

    Here's one I did with the "Haiku U and Other Stuff" blog...

    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/157257/Cleveland_Poetics_2

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  5. pottygokSeptember 2, 2008 at 12:07 PM

    Okay, this is as addictive as coffee. Here's Shakespeare's Hamlet:

    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/157491/Hamlet

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  6. michael salingerSeptember 2, 2008 at 12:41 PM

    Here's one with the entire text of On the Road fed to it.

    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/157545/_Kerouac%27s_On_the_Road

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  7. AnonymousSeptember 2, 2008 at 3:35 PM

    Have you checked your mail yet today? Apparently the Cleveland Opera likes this site, too!

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  8. Geoffrey A. LandisSeptember 7, 2008 at 12:33 PM

    Cool!

    I actually have a short-short story coming up in the next issue of Asimov's, "Still on the Road," so I tried it: wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/168922/Still_On_the_Road

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    Geoffrey A. Landis
    http://www.sff.net/people/geoffrey.landis

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