Have you Wordled yet?

Google is a web application that is now regularly used as a verb. Another web tool that looks set to follow this trend is Wordle. It generates “word clouds” from text that you provide, giving greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Then the clouds can be tweaked with with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The resulting images can be printed or shared via the Wordle gallery.

A number of Christian bloggers have created Wordles from Bible books and passages, for example:
* The Beatitudes (which Emmanuel Church studied over the summer)

* Philippians (forthcoming sermon series at Holy Trinity, Leicester)

Wordling Infusion

This is the result of pasting the first-ever post on this blog into Wordle. Click on the image above to enlarge it.

What matters to Infusion

The Infusion wordle gives an impression of what we focus on and back in May, when the Infusion blog was a year old, we looked at the most frequent topics on this blog. Here's an update 18 months after Infusion entered the blogosphere:

• Faith (68)
• Environment (41)
• Food (37)
• Internet (36)
• Walks (30)
• Tea (29)
• Christmas Countdown (24)
• Books (24)
• Church (22)
• Fairtrade (21)
• Stewardship (18)

By May we had clocked up 21 posts on tea and 14 on coffee; there are now 29 posts on tea but only 16 on coffee.

Celebrating 40 years since Apollo 11 Landing

A Wordle of Neil Armstrong's words from the Apollo 11 mission

• NASA website: Apollo 40th Anniversary features
• The Science of Apollo 11
• Apollo 11 Landing's 40th Anniversary celebrated, new footage released

Wordling politicians

You can use Wordle to analyse any sort of text - not just Scripture. The BBC have just used it to analyse the speeches made by the two US vice-presidential candidates.

While we don't really "do politics" on this blog, if you feel you are losing the plot about what's happening in the US, check out the 20-page briefing on the US election 2008 from the Economist.

Seeking first the Kingdom

At Holy Trinity, Leicester we have recently begun a sermon series on the Sermon on the Mount(downloads here) and Emmanuel Church, Loughborough looked at the Beatitudes last summer (search on blessed here). Recently we've been singing Tim Hughes' song Living For Your Glory, which fits in with the focus of these sermons on the Kingdom:

And take my life, let it be everything, all of me
Here I am, use me for Your glory
In everything I say and do, let my life honor You
Here I am living for Your glory
Seeking first the Kingdom of my Lord