One-Trick Wordle

My friends over at Southern Growth Studio turned me on to Wordle this morning, via an image posted on their Facebook page.

Wordle creates a stylized word cloud based on the tags used in your del.icio.us links. The image above was created from mine. Much like the relational graph visualizer, Web Graph (only completely different), Wordle is a one-trick-pony, but every bit worth the ride.

Wordle was created by Jonathan Feinberg, of IBM Research, and he graciously thanks his employer for letting him use code that he developed at work to run the Java Applet. He also provides many acknowledgments. I really respect that, so check out the credits page while you’re there.

What? A quick search says it’s never been mentioned on BoingBoing. Hmm… must notify Mark with a quick link submission.