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By: Brandon Satrom

Brandon Satrom — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:03:27 +0000

Russ, Nice. Send me the link to that, I’d like to check it out.

As for saving, it’s not that simple, actually. Because the Wordle is dynamically generated in a Java Applet, there’s no way to save the output directly. However, there are some workarounds. The easiest thing to do is take a screen shot of the page, then copy that into a paint program and crop out everything but the picture.

Let me know if you want a hand, I’d be happy to help out.

By: Russ

Russ — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:41:31 +0000

just used wordle to analyze some corporate strategy documents. pretty interesting stuff. that’s a great way to quickly pull out themes. Do you know a way to save the output to your personal drive?

By: Brandon Satrom

Brandon Satrom — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:15:16 +0000

Great stuff!!! You’re right on with some things and close with others. I won’t say which is which, though.

Great comment! Glad you liked the Wordle!

By: Teri

Teri — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:15 +0000

This is VERY interesting! I’ll take a stab at it…The main character is Roland. Subcharacters are his Mother and Father. The Mother appears to have a positive influence on Roland since her “name” is prominent and also appears horizontally along with Roland. The way that the word Father appears (downward) indicates to me that he either fell out of the family picture or in some way diminished his place in Roland and his Mother’s life. Could it be that Roland is taking a “look back” over his life? Could it be that Roland, up until this point in his life, has kept a lot of his thoughts and feelings about his family “bottled up”? And then let’s not overlook Muriel…Her position in the wordle makes me think of her positively. Muriel is attached to the beginning of Roland’s name and is on the “Up” side so could this be a person that started Roland on the journey to look back and examine his upbringing?

How did I do? If I’m way off base I could have just given you another good storyline.