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June 17, 2008

Apology Tag Cloud

Apology Cloud

My mate, Myles Eftos, recently blogged about this great little app, Wordle, which creates a ‘tag cloud’ based on text that you can upload.

He suggested a meme using your blog content to create a tag cloud, however rather than my own content, I used the text of Kevin Rudd’s brave Apology to the Australian Indigenous Peoples speech, delivered on 13 February 2008, to create the above.

See the larger version over at Flickr.

What tag cloud can you create using famous or important texts?

Image: Apology Tag Cloud.

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8 Responses to “Apology Tag Cloud”

  1. Alex Graham said:
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Nice interpretation Miles! Interesting to see that “sorry” doesn’t actually appear much.

  2. Jordan Brock said:
    June 17th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

    But this is a far more important document - http://tinyurl.com/3htb6a

  3. Ben Buchanan said:
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Beat you ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos/200ok/2577479033/

    Keating’s Redfern Speech makes a good comparison cloud - http://www.flickr.com/photos/200ok/2577452323/in/photostream/

    I also like the way album lyrics come up - http://www.flickr.com/photos/200ok/2580721484/

  4. Bryce said:
    June 17th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    I created a Wordle of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. See it here.

  5. Matt Didcoe » Blog Archive » Crazy text cloud meme - “I have a dream” said:
    June 17th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    […] In response to Myles requests for crazy text meme’s and Miles challenge, I took Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and text clouded it. […]

  6. Rosemary said:
    June 17th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    The President’s State of the Union Address 2002:
    http://wordle.net/gallery/The_President%27s_State_of_the_Union_Address

  7. Jon Yau said:
    June 18th, 2008 at 8:22 am

    You might have unleashed an army of tag cloud artists!

  8. Miles said:
    June 18th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    ha ha, great examples folks - keep it up. Big props to Ben, who managed to do the same speech as me 2 days before as well - great minds think alike! :)

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