What’s the Word(le)?

So, by now many of you might have already discovered the wonderful world of Wordle, a website that creates your own word clouds (it’s free!). Simply copy and paste a document — CV, resume, poem, manifesto — and see what comes of it. Most frequently written words are of course the biggest. A good way to waste time indeed. I decided to Wordle an essay I’m “working” on right now. Guess what it’s about? (Click to enlarge).

After this, I thought why not try this other essay I’m working on, one that I find much more interesting, but which I’ve set aside for the “ethnocyborg” project.  After Wordling this one, it occurred to me that I might be using one word in particular a bit too much.  In this one, I pasted 200 more words than the first Wordle project:

Great way to see what you’re all about in a way.