A “word cloud” is a graphics file that emphasizes words that appear more frequently in any text, such as the text on a website. For example, here’s a word cloud for President-elect Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention. Here’s this site’s word cloud for October 2008:
Eli Pariser wrote this piece for yesterday’s Post. He discusses the future of Moveon.org in relation to President-elect Obama’s agenda and internet tools. So if Obama’s agenda is to prevail, he needs to draw on a deeply committed, deeply engaged citizenry. No one else can tip the scale.
The Post’s Jose Antonio Vargas discusses the use of social networking and other internet resources for campaigns. Now, because of technology in general and the Internet in particular, politics has become something tangible. Politics is right here. You touch it; it’s in your laptop and on your cellphone. You control it, by forwarding an e-mail […]