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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.

It’s with excitement that I hand over the reigns of wrongwrite.com to the team at 18a Productions in the United Kingdom, dedicated to carrying on the fight against spelling and grammatical catastrophes.

Recently, I posted here about my lack of time to dedicate to the blog I started last February, so it was great that I found someone to take over the blog (it was a gift to them) and keep it alive.

Lisa and Tom are passionate about the advancement of our language, and I wish them all the best of luck in managing the blog. I’ll be sure to send in the occasional contribution!

Image: Miss Print signage, taken at a local Chemist.

I’m always coming up with crazy ideas, and normally I have enough self control to realise when I am stretched to my limits, time wise. Unfortunately, I had the best intentions, however because of work and personal commitments, I don’t have any more time for a blog I started in February of this year, wrongwrite.com.

Rather than just delete it all, let the domain name expire, or indeed let it grow cobwebs, I’m putting the word out. If you’re a stickler for grammatical and spelling errors, and gain some sort of satisfaction about mumbling about the examples you discover, online, then I want to hear from you.

You’ll need a hosting environment that can handle Wordpress, and can handle the migration of the blog and its files from it’s current location to your own choice (I haven’t got time to really help). You’ll also be happy to agree to keep the blog covering the subject matter it was set up for, or have a grand plan for it, that you’ll be happy to share. You’re welcome to redesign it, sell ads on it, etc.

If you’ve got a good idea for it, or indeed passionate about keeping it going, as is (with you posting to it more frequently than I have managed to), then I’m happy to give you the files, the existing content, the domain name (expires February 2009) and the whole site, google page rank of 4/10, 589 backlinks and all. Cost? Well a beer or two would be great - but I’m happy to give it away free, to the right person.

If I don’t get any good ideas, it’ll sit out there for historical reasons, however I simply don’t have time to give that blog the attention it really needs. Email me via miles at bam dot com dot au with your suggestions, before the end of the year…

Image: Screengrab of wrongwrite.com.