Tag Archives: Wordle

David Cameron’s first speech as Prime Minister compared to Gordon Brown’s resignation speech

Posted on May 11, 2010 by John Welsh

The word “government” was the most frequently used word in David Cameron’s first speech as Prime Minster, below, surprising for a politican who campaigned so hard to cut down the size of government. (I quickly Wordled* David Cameron’s first speech … Continue reading →

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President Obama’s inauguration speech as a Wordle

Posted on January 20, 2009 by John Welsh

A Wordle is a “tag cloud” or  “word cloud” which clearly indicates key words used in any text. Here I have cut President Obama’s inauguration speech, delivered an hour ago, from the BBC website and then pasted it into the … Continue reading →

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Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s conference speech as a wordle

Posted on September 23, 2008 by John Welsh

Here is the entire speech of Prime Minsiter Gordon Brown to the Labour Party conference this afternoon in Manchester presented as a “wordle”, or tag cloud. The toy gives greater prominence to those words that are most often used. Note how the word “people” and … Continue reading →

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Liberal Democratic leader Nick Clegg’s conference speech as a wordle

Posted on September 20, 2008 by John Welsh

Here is the entire speech of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg to his conference last week presented as a “wordle, or tag cloud. The toy gives greater prominence to those words that are most often used. Note how Clegg mentions … Continue reading →

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Obama/McCain battle it out over a wordle!

Posted on September 4, 2008 by John Welsh

We have had a lot of fun about wordles on this blog. So I thought I would show you wordles comparing blogs by presidential contenders Barack Obama and john McCain. The idea comes from Web 2.Oh….really?

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My blog as a word cloud

Posted on July 16, 2008 by John Welsh

This is my blog passed through Wordle, as recommended by One Man and his Blog. Its goals are   Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that … Continue reading →

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