Wordle

by Henry Farrell on July 21, 2008

I’ve seen various textcloud applications before, but Wordle (via Steve Poole) is the first one that I’ve seen that makes it easy to produce aesthetically attractive pictures of the information. Below is the textcloud of my book, “The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests and Inter-Firm Cooperation” which I’m preparing for publication in Cambridge’s Comparative Politics series (click on the graphic to see the full thing). I want to make a poster of this and frame it for my office.

More on accents

by Chris Bertram on July 21, 2008

Further to earlier posts on this topic, the BBC website has a short clip of a voice coach training an Englishman to sound American, together with an accompanying article . (To my ears his American sounds slightly Irish.) There’s a priceless first comment below the article from a Texan who writes: “It never occurs to us that there is such a thing as an American accent.” Well now you know.