Discovering Crutch Words with Wordle

/ February 11, 2011

Falling to Normal Wordle Crutch words are those sneaky things that are the backbone of your personal vernacular. They can be disguised as fillers, such as “um,” or actual phrases, like “you know?” and “omigod!” They’re so insidious an unobservant person wouldn’t pick up on them.* This is one of the things you should be on the lookout for during

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Last.fm & The New Music Search

/ February 8, 2010

I love my music. I listen to it all the time. One thing I love to do is to find new bands to listen to. This can be difficult when you have radio stations that don’t push the envelope. (This is not counting college radio, which I do listen to once and a while.) Because of the suck factor on

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How I Spend My Twitter Time

/ October 27, 2009

Instead of doing prewriting during office downtime today, I opted to play with Wordle. I first learned about this awesome app from my friend Danielle. Since then, it’s been popping up in the tweets and blogs of people I follow. Courtesy of TweetStats, I found out that I can make a word cloud with my Twitter account. What a terrific

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