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Presidential Speech and Document Tag Clouds

I'm a little over the whole "tag cloud" (a simple weighted list, really) thing as applied to blog posts, but applying it to more socially "interesting" texts is a clever idea. Here Chirag Mehta has run a series of tag clouds on 360 speeches and documents by Presidents of the United States – US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.

For example, move the slider back and forth to move forward and back in time, and compare W's 2001-01-20: First Inaugural Address with his 2006-01-31: State of the Union Address. Pretty cool.

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My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.