That’s how long I’ve been blogging here. Looking back I’m relatively surprised that I’ve actually posted with reasonable consistency. If I’m at a conference or other event, I blog a lot – trying to capture as much from the sessions as I can, and otherwise I tend to post a couple of times a month.
I thought a Wordle of my blog would be a good way of celebrating 5 years, so here it is – this is based on all entries, comments and pingbacks from the last 5 years (but not this entry)
Owen, nice idea: especially as it seems”to cry out “Need Library!!!!
Or is it “Library need”?
Cool, as the young people say. Coming up for my fifth too, so thought of copying you.But when I do, it only bases the Wordle on the most recent posts. How did you get it to inlcude all posts, commments, trackbacks etc?
Congratulations! I’m afraid it took a bit of doing – I exported all posts and comments using the Typepad ‘export’ function. This gave me a text file with everything in. I then tidied it up with a text editor (Textpad in my case) to remove various things like tags, labels, dates, email addresses etc. which I thought might skew the cloud in a less interesting direction. Finally when I’d done this I pasted the resulting text into the Wordle application text box – it took a while to process the text, but eventually came through. I did also try using Many Eyes, which outputs in different visualisation formats – including Wordle – and decided that for illustrative purposes Wordle was the nicest.
Great, thanks.Plenty of time to do that, as I think I started round end of November/beginning of December. Trying to remember what I used. Only went onto TypePad in April 04, though brought the first six months entries over from the previous platform