Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Word Cloud Quiz

I love the website www.wordle.net.  This website allows your to generate a word cloud, a kind of graphical summary of text, by simply pasting text into a box and clicking a button.  I put the text from five prominent English-language news sites into the box and generated the following word clouds, which I've marked A through E.  Can you guess the websites?

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D.


E.



Answers

I hope you didn't have to turn your computer upside down.  

Isn't amazing how often the very name of some newspapers is the most frequent item on the page?  Bloggers should take a lesson from this.  Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica ... Marqjonz's Picatopica.