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Welcome Back Wordle… Plus 7 Other Free Word Cloud Generators! | 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning
Word Clouds have caught the attention of the country and have become a part of the 21st Century classroom.
During 2006, tag clouds moved beyond their well-known role as navigation mechanisms and indicators of activity within social media experiences, emerging as a standard visualization technique for texts and textual data in general. This use of tag clouds does not commonly involve tags , social networks , emergent architectures , folksonomies , or metadata .
Text Clouds: A New Form of Tag Cloud? — Joe Lamantia.com
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
I was looking for a wordle-like visualization which would allow to assign color, initial position and size of a String related to other data, such as the relevance within a text - didn't find anything, but thanks to the information I found here (Especially Jonathan's explanation and aeby's link), I could finally implement ' Cloudio ', which comes relatively close to wordle (at least I think so...) and offers the features I was looking for.
layout - Algorithm to implement a word cloud like Wordle - Stack Overflow
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7 Fun, Free Tag Cloud Software Programs to Create Word Art
Tag clouds are those boxes of words that you sometimes see on blogs and social networking websites . The words are a collection of the words most commonly used in whatever parameters set forth by the tag cloud. For example, you might make a tag cloud of all of the most popular words used in your blog posts in the past month.