MacRumors Stories and Users Wordclouds

[arn]

Word Cloud of the text of the last 1000 stories on MacRumors.com. It includes page 2 and the iphone blog, so it is iphone-biased.

generated with http://wordle.net/

 

[MacDawg]

Very cool arn!

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Interesting to see the "greater prominence" to words here...

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[uncwmac]

nice

desktop background

 

[arn]

here are a couple with the last year of stories, but I liked the look of the first one better.
ya, bigger words = used more times

 

[MacDawg]

I like the different looks... but definitely the first one you posted looks best!

Doctor Q should put together a WordCloud with the top posters on the board giving prominence to the highest posters!

How 'bout it Doctor??

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[arn]

top 500 posters, weighted by post count. not sure how many wordle uses.

5 different versions

 

[JML42691]

I just love how mad jew, Doctor Q, and Mr. Anderson just dominate all of those images, who is the unlucky 501 who didn't make it? Cool Site

EDIT: It appears Awimoway didn't make it by one post.

 

[MacDawg]

top 500 posters, weighted by post count. not sure how many wordle uses.

Yeah, there's not 500 names listed on there (or I would be on it ), so it must adjust somehow

But really an interesting tool
Thanks for sharing arn and for putting in the work on the top posters!

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[ingenious]

I just love how mad jew, Doctor Q, and Mr. Anderson just dominate all of those images, who is the unlucky 501 who didn't make it? Cool Site

EDIT: It appears Awimoway didn't make it by one post.

where's the list?

 

[MacDawg]

Member List

Sort by post count

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[bartelby]

I like the users one.
I particularly like the one where I'm in the darkest blue (picture11). Almost invisible so I can pretend I have a life.

 

[mkrishnan]

You know this thread will just fuel the complaints that there is too much iPhone on Macrumors. Although I am pretty sure I saw Mac in that cloud somewhere.

Those are fun, Arn, thanks for sharing! I should check out that site.

 

[JNB]

I only counted 147 names, I don't know if they're all in the top 147 or if some from below that were pulled in or not.

A 500-name cloud would be a wondrous sight, indeed! Actually, that would be a great background (even better, a constantly updating screen saver)!

 

[dukebound85]

yea i couldnt see my name up there lol

still cool though