I "Wordled" my blog...

I love creative visual representations of boring data, so I was intrigued by Wordle. From the Wordle website:

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.

Cool! Here's the word cloud for this blog:

I've spent a few minutes staring at the word cloud, trying to figure out why some words (e.g. "Alistair") appear more frequently than others (like "data").

Oh, great--I just gave "Alistair" more importance! If I keep talking about "Alistair", eventually he's going to dominate the whole word cloud! What if Alistair himself gets annoyed by my repeated use of his name, and posts a comment, signing it "Alistair"?

Okay, that's enough...I'm off to post this entry, and see what the new word cloud looks like...