Word clouds are wonderful things, especially for someone like me — I’m very visual, but also someone who loves words and reading. Word clouds also just so conveniently create a snapshot of meaning and emphasis.

Up until now I had only seen word cloud plug-ins for blogs and the like, to show what was abuzz at any given moment. But there’s a site, wordle.net, which will generate a word cloud based on your text input, a URL or a del.i.cio.us user name. Try it out, it’s a lot of fun.

I create this word cloud by cutting and pasting a rather large collection of favorite quotes I had accumulated over the years. This word cloud is also hosted at wordle.