Comments on: A Portrait of A Book

By: Nerdy word fun « The Oyster’s Garter

Nerdy word fun « The Oyster’s Garter — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:59:57 +0000

[...] 30, 2008 Nerdy word fun Posted by Miriam Goldstein under Self-Referential, Silliness Carl Zimmer posted a excellent online word toy, Wordle. It makes word clouds out of any blog or book, with the [...]

By: Words in the Clouds | Cosmic Variance

Words in the Clouds | Cosmic Variance — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:58:19 +0000

[...] Everyone is amused by Wordle these days. Plug in (or link to) some text, and it makes quite a nice word cloud, customizable in all sorts of ways. At least Abbas had the modesty to try Hamlet, rather than one of his own pieces. [...]

By: bioblog » Blog Archive » Wordle IS fun

bioblog » Blog Archive » Wordle IS fun — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:40:19 +0000

[...] Hat tip to Genomicron and The Loom. [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:07:49 +0000

I still think that, so far, Daniel's "Origin of Species" is the one to beat. The one I did of the reviews of Eating the Sun worked out better than those of the book itself, which makes sense, I think, on reflection

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:41:03 +0000

Pretty cool.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:50:17 +0000

I guess I should have mentioned that I got the source of the text from:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/coldspring/printit.html
and I left out the citations but did include the figure legend.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:48:23 +0000

I like it. I decided to put Watson and Crick’s paper through the process. It’s in the gallery if you’re interested in taking a look. I used Watson J.D. and Crick F.H.C. as the user-name. I’d love to see a collection of famous papers put through the process.