Common Words
A fringe benefit of the Link Apprentice experiment in Tinderbox is that the apprentice generates some interesting textual statistics. Here, for example, is a snapshot of the most common words that appeared in this weblog from May 1-23.
Writers might find this information useful. How might we best present it? The image above is based on the Technorati tag cloud, which has to work inside browsers and so has lots of limitations on layout and performance. Might we squeeze more information into the view?