Wordle

I just came across a nice little tool which creates word clouds from text provided. It certainly helps while writing a paper to see if the main message is actually reflected sufficiently in the text. Often the focus within text moves into areas and topics which were not intended – the word cloud at least provides you with an idea if the relevant words are used often enough. Let’s see what happens if I just put this paragraph into the word cloud.
Find more detail here on wikipedia – one of the on-line tools liked from there is wordle. Using the text on this page the following cloud would be created: