While reading a entry ‘ECM is Fun’ by Carl @ TakingAim, I came across Wordle “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide”. It was quite intriguing, so I ended up creating word cloud using Wordle for my blog as well. It was amazing to see your creativity printed out in a entirely new format. Here was the result:

This made me think about how content authors may feel when they see their content being re-purposed in myriad ways, sometime totally unpredictable. Would they feel proud or frustrated? What about me? I think I will be proud most of the time, probably except when the primary context itself is unrecognizable or spun-around. I create the content with a base context and if you remove that context, its meaning is lost.