Blockland is....(the bigger the circle is, the more popular that phrase is when you search for it on a search engine)
Well this really neat web application called
Impure came up in my RSS feed so I had to try it out. It's actually pretty cool. I decided to work my way through the circle tag cloud tutorial, only using Blockland instead of Apple.
The actual word list I came up with was "fun, boring, awesome, expensive, cool, cheap, free, indie, stuffty, crappy, neat, great, pretty, ugly, slow, fast, beutiful, average, roblox, legos, building, a game, a city, a town, a forum, a website, in germany, german, on tv, not fun, gay, sweet, horrible, awful, terrible, lovely, good, bad, a toy, better, worse, 4chan." Note that pretty is probably exaggerated a bit because it's also an adverb, as in "pretty cool, pretty expensive."
Here's a screenshot of how the chart was made:
Step by step:
First Impure takes the big list of words above and converts it into a list. Then it takes the phrase "Blockland is" and adds one of the words from the list to it. So first you get "Blockland is fun" then you get "Blockland is boring." It then searches for each of these on a search engine and remembers the number of results. Then it takes the number and matches it with the word on the list and sizes the bubble on the chart accordingly.
