Here’s a rather interesting use of a word cloud. David McCandless from Information is Beautiful gathered together the results of a bunch of book polls & top 100 lists, and then made this word cloud. The full data and analysis are available here: bit.ly/BooksEveryone You can click on the image at right to see it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'word'
What’s in a word?
January 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
If you’ve been reading or watching the news in the past month, you can’t help but notice the furor over new editions of Tom Sawyer and Hckleberry Finn that will soon be released by Alan Gribben. These new editions will probably come to be known as the expurgated edition and they have one important change: [...]
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New word for cheap junky tablets – crapperjack?
November 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
So I was reading a story today about how Toys-r-Us will have an Android tablet for sale on Black Friday. It’s going to be the Sylvania one that has already shown up at Kmart, so don’t get your hopes up. As I was reading the article, I wondered how long it would be until a [...]
Tags:cheap·crapperjack·junky·tablets·word
Wordcram – a new word cloud generator
September 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · content creation
You might recall a couple months ago that I posted about Wordle, a browser based word cloud generator. I found a similar tool that runs locally and gives you several useful options that you don’t get with Wordle. Wordcram is a relatively new project by Daniel Bernier. If you plan to make a lot of [...]
Amazon pulled Every Word app due to the N-word
August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Amazon, apps & games
I have a follow up on the story I reported earlier today. Amazon pulled the app. Here’s what Crunchgear reported: Just got word from Amazon, and they’re going to stop distributing the game because “the dictionary it uses does not block some inappropriate words.” Once the offending words are expunged, distribution will resume and an [...]
India’s National Library plans a ‘Museum of the Word’
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From Topnew.in: The National Library is planning to establish a a Museum of the Word to mark and preserve the long history of various scripts created, used and some lost in our country on continued history.The museum is to come up in an old heritage building, which was once the home of Warren Hastings, Bengal’s [...]
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