FUN With Words ~ 9 Free Ways To Make Word-Clouds

Folks who read blogs regularly are usually familiar with Tag-Clouds.

If you scroll down a bit in the left side-panel you’ll see an example of a Tag-Cloud called “Top Tags”.

That particular Cloud is very handy for finding a group of posts that share certain key concepts.

In fact, if you put your cursor over the words there, you’ll see how many posts have that Tag.

Clicking the words takes you to a new page with all those particular posts ready to read :-)

It’s automatically re-created every time I add Tags to each post I publish—look at the very bottom of this post and you’ll see the Tags I gave it.

Most Word-Clouds have different colors or sizes for the words to show their importance.

But, this post is about how you can create Word-Clouds from any WebPage or Blog or Text you can copy and paste.

The nine free ways to create word-clouds are on the site Smashing Apps.

Here’s a Cloud I made by feeding in the WebAddress of this blog:

And, next is a Cloud I made from 826 words I copied and pasted from a Wikipedia article on Extroversion and Introversion.

I was able to limit the Cloud to words that appeared at least 2 times—the Cloud-generator was able to include 80 words:

 

Then, I took the 42,564 words of my novel, Notes from An Alien, but specified the words in the Cloud had to occur at least 19 times—to find what the peaks of the book’s landscape might look like:

If you look over all nine of the free apps at Smashing Apps you’ll find some very useful and very exotic ways to visualize words.

Here’s one more example from one of those nine apps—one of my poems—just for fun :-)

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