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Today is May 8, 2005 |
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Word Mapping
I've been intrigued by the word maps featured on flickr and Technorati, where they have software that counts up the tags that are posted with pictures and blogs, and presents the most used tags in a word map. But I hadn't made the connection with Blogmeister until about 3:30 AM this morning, when I woke up, that thought hanging onto the treads of sleep like an angry cat, clawing in desperation to find purchase (hey, I'm working on four hours of sleep).
Anyway, I had to get up and start. I don't like cats and knew there was no use in trying to go back to sleep. (It's not that I don't like cats. I'm allergic. One of those things that happened with adulthood. Oh! I digress again). I got up, started examining the databases that hold Blogmeister together, and I came up with away. I wrote some crazy code that went through every blog, captured the words more than six letters long, and then started counting them.
The word map below, shows the 75 100 most used words in Blogmeister blogs. The words that are in larger text are words that are used significantly more than the smaller ones. Cool, huh!
At first I tried culling out the words with less meaning, but then it occurred to me that it might be interesting to see how much we use words like actually, instead, and everyone. So here it is. I'll work on a tool that will do this ongoing, so that we can watch for trends. But right now, I have to make a living. ;-)
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The IP address of your computer is 209.237.238.173 -- ;-) |
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