Word Clouds are an interesting way to visualize a piece of writing by representing the most commonly used words by size, according to frequency of use. I used
Wordle to create a Word Cloud of my 2012 posts. It turned out not to be a trivial exercise (
see footnote) since I had to do some work for it to analyze all 167 posts I've done so far this year.
Swim -
bike -
run -
race feature prominently, as do
just and
time! It's just kind of interesting to look around and think what words I might like to see pop a bit more next year. Knowing my writing is reflecting my thinking, am I emphasizing the right things, directing my attention in the best ways?
Even though it is a triathlon blog, I couldn't help but notice how small
family and
kids are.
Food for thought.
Footnote: I ended up exporting the entire blog, deleting all but the the 2012
posts, opening it in Firefox, copying text and pasting as text into Word to strip HTML, then
doing a bit of find/replace cleanup. There must be an easier way.
The RSS feed only 'fed' the most recent post.
