TITLE: A Picture of My Blog
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: June 16, 2008  1:38 PM
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I saw a link to
<A HREF="http://wordle.net/">
   Wordle</A>
on
<A HREF="http://www.exampler.com/blog/2008/06/15/my-interests-this-year/">
   Exploration Through Example</A>
and decided to try it out on Knowing and Doing.  Wordle
generates a
<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud">
   tag cloud</A>
for any text you paste in.  I pasted in the content of my
blog since the beginning of 2008, and it produced this
lovely image:

<A HREF="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog-images/art/word-cloud-thru-061608.jpg">
   <IMG SRC="http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog-images/art/word-cloud-thru-061608.jpg"
        ALT="a tag cloud for Knowing and Doing posts since 01/2008"
        ALIGN="center"
        WIDTH="500">
   </A>

That looks like a pretty good capsule of what I've been
writing about lately.  I was a bit surprised at the size
of "students", but I probably shouldn't have been.
"Programming", "work", "time", "ideas", "read", and
"computer"/"CS"/"computing" hit the mark.

Besides, I had fun writing the script to pull plain text
for my posts from their source form.  It was a nice break
from a day dealing with lab reservations and end-of-year
budget issues.
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