Word Up

June 24th, 2008 by GCI Canada Staff

People have short attention spans, and sometimes need to know who you are, your philosophy — and fast.

Enter Wordle. You just type in a bunch of text and it generates a personal tag cloud based on word frequency. Some people have typed in their resume, or words to a favourite song.

I tried with GCI Canada’s mission statement and you can see the results by clicking on the image below:

Following on from Twitter and Plurk, it seems the “word” is back in fashion.

~ John Carson, Senior Digital Media Specialist, GCI Canada

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