What is everyone talking about?

I rediscovered a tool that I had forgotten about this morning. A website called Wordle which can grab all the text from a website, rss feed or even a paragraph that you submit and graphically display the words in a semi-artistic way. Larger words representing a greater frequency of that word. Its very like a tag cloud, but looks at the whole text rather than just the tags and then produces a non-clickable picture (ignoring words like ‘and’ and ‘the’). It gives you an attractive and visual way to find out what are popular topics on our website.

Because it was a damp Friday, I have  quickly created wordles for our website and another for blog rss feed. 

The wordle of our website website looks like this:

 

It is showing that we talk about planets, stars and Jupiters alot. The wordle of our blog feed look like this:Overwhealmingly we talk about ‘telescope(s)’ and ‘science’ on our blog posts, which is rather reassuring.