Wordle is, in its creator's own words, "a toy for generating 'word clouds.'" With this free, browser-based app, users input text or link to an RSS feed to generate word clouds - visual representations of the most commonly used words in the source text. Users are then able to tweak and customize these word clouds using a simple toolset, and save their creations to the Wordle public database.
Here are some examples of Word clouds that compare the language used by various liberal and conservative news outlets.
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| Fox News |
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| MSNBC |
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| The National Review |
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| The New York Times |
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| Town Hall |
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| The Raw Story |
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| World News Daily |
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| The Washington Post |
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| The National Journal |
Once you make a word cloud with Wordle, you have free reign to do with it as you please. Yes, that also means you can sell them.
