The Internet is a Brain
Sunny summer’s morning in Somerset, enjoying the juxtaposition of:
Popular Science’s revelation of the first wiring diagrams of the cerebral cortex:
Matthew Hurst’s brilliant blogosphere activation simulation / visualization from PdF2008:
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And Jeff Stibel’s Harvard Business blog: The Internet is a Brain
Wordle up
Jonathan Feinberg has created Wordle a delightful tool for making and sharing beautiful word clouds (see the Debategraph illustration below).
Click here for the full size version.
As with other word and tag clouds, the frequency with which words appear in a submited text determines their scale in the cloud; however, Wordle builds on this by offering a range of formatting options and exploiting the space within words and letters to give a more organic feel to the resulting clouds.
Hat Tip: the ever inspiring Lloyd Shepherd.
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