I just used Tweet Cloud to generate a cloud of the most frequently used words of mine over the past year, and think this is a nifty way of offering a (quantitative) visual snapshot of what I tend to talk about.
The words are, in order of most used, are:
- blog
- post
- research
- time
- office
- class
- thank
- project
- online
- finally
- morning
- tonight
- conference
- week
- getting
- paper
- people
- learning
- night
- home
- tomorrow
- evening
- love
- outside
- comment
- rain
- hope
- lunch
- comments
- autoethnography
- meeting
- wonder
- wonderful
- late
- nice
- practice
- course
- dinner
- finished
- updates
- qualitative
- music
- feedback
- coffee
- enjoy
- wish
- sounds
- wine
- busy
- blackberry
- teaching
- waiting
- little
- jeffreys
- feel
- final
- read
- business
- manhattan
Hi Jeffrey!
Very interesting this cloud. Shows a lot about you, don’t you think?
I would like to know what are my most used words…Actually, this cloud reminds a child’s play (not just child ;)) that I used to do.
I remember when was at school and when I got bored I started writing random list with words from the teacher or anywhere, then reading outloud.
Good memory.
Take care,
Ana
Ana –
Great memories! Do you use Twitter? This is a tool that will work with it, depending on the amount of time you tell it to cloud.
Another option, even from blog posts, is to try the tool Wordle http://www.wordle.net/; it would be interesting to see what your work over the last few months shows about what you write!
Jeffrey