Virginia Miracle » Washington Post http://www.virginiamiracle.com Word of Mouth Marketing Practitioner Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:34:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Presidential “Word Cloud” in Print WashPo http://www.virginiamiracle.com/2008/08/03/presidential-word-cloud-in-print-washpo/ http://www.virginiamiracle.com/2008/08/03/presidential-word-cloud-in-print-washpo/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:40:52 +0000 virginia.miracle http://www.virginiamiracle.com/2008/08/03/presidential-word-cloud-in-print-washpo/ Today’s Sunday Washington Post features a comparison of the “word clouds” created by John McCain and Barack Obama’s respective blogs. The immediate point is that Obama is the biggest topic for both blogs, but that’s not why I care. Tag CloudWe know that reporters use blogs for story ideas and leads on quotes, but seeing something as run of the mill in Web 2.0 as a tag cloud appearing in the Sunday print edition is a very visible example of convergence. Now if only I could somehow use the print terms to sort reading the rest of the zillion pages in the Sunday edition, we’d really be in e-business.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that these lovely clouds are the creation of Wordle.

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