I’ve added a bit of colour to the word clouds to indicate the “hotness” of individual words. Words that are increasing in usage are more orange, whilst those that are declining in use are bluer.
For example, here’s the cloud for “holiday”…
…very few bloggers are still talking about “christmas”, so the word is very blue.
OCLC is a popular topic at the moment (surprise, surprise!), so the cloud contains quite a few words that are increasing in usage…
Let me know what you think — does the colour add value to the clouds or is it visually distracting?
January 16, 2009
I like the change; it is a good visual mashup of the hotness of a term overall versus the hotness of a term in a particular corpus. Nice work!