Mark Luckie at 10,000 Words ran the website descriptions from a couple of journalism schools through Wordle, creating a tag-cloud-esque depiction of words found on the sites.
The most popular word breakdown:
Medill Graduate School of Journalism: Reporting.
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism: Reporting, Writing.
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: Reporting, Immigration, Stories, New
Asian College of Journalism: Media, Political, Issues.
UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications: Media, Research.
I ran the University of Florida’s College of Journalism site through Wordle, and came up with this:
University of Florida College of Journalism word cloud
December 27, 2008 at 7:53 am
Why on Earth is that cloud completely crazy twisted upside down and backward? Is there a rule that says text readability and usability has to be sacrificed for the sake of design? I don’t want to have to tilt my head 90 degrees to the monitor to read things.
December 27, 2008 at 2:53 am
Why on Earth is that cloud completely crazy twisted upside down and backward? Is there a rule that says text readability and usability has to be sacrificed for the sake of design? I don’t want to have to tilt my head 90 degrees to the monitor to read things.
December 27, 2008 at 7:56 am
No rule, and I’m no designer; just my own sense of humor. The largest words require no head tilting, and the smaller ones don’t matter much.
December 27, 2008 at 2:56 am
No rule, and I’m no designer; just my own sense of humor. The largest words require no head tilting, and the smaller ones don’t matter much.