"I've looked at clouds from both sides now,From up and down, and still somehow,
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds, at all."
-Joni Mitchell, Both Sides Now
Cathy Nelson started it. Clay Burell took it a step further by creating a meme. So Cathy went back a second time to fine-tune her creation.
All of this action centered on TweetClouds, a site which makes a word cloud from your public Twitter stream.
Since Twitter is a social networking tool, it doesn't surprise me that @ updates to friends occur most frequently. These are my friends, colleagues, support system, co-learners.
When we speak, I use words like "new," "time," "school," "know," "love." In the alphabetical arrangement of results, bits of unexpected insight appear:
"blogging-book"
"come-comment-congratulations-cool"
"different-district-doesn't"
"home-hope-hubby"
"teach-teacher-teachers-tech"
"time-today-tomorrow"
"wonderful-work-world"
There is sadness: "left-library-life" and humor: "old-ones-online."
But most of all, there is "friends-fun."
"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds." -Henry David Thoreau
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