The original Wordle web site is gone—it depended on a technology that no browser supports anymore—and these days “Wordle” usually means the New York Times daily word-guessing game, which is no relation. But the word-cloud toy lives on as words. Click and play!
I created the Wordle word-cloud layout algorithms while working on a social bookmarking application at IBM Research, in 2005. I created the “Wordle” web application in 2008. Since that time, hundreds of thousands of people have saved over 7,000,000 word clouds to Wordle’s public gallery, before the gallery was turned off.
I contributed a chapter about Wordle to the O'Reilly book “Beautiful Visualization”. You can buy the book—all royalties go to
Architecture for Humanity—or
you can download a copy of the chapter I wrote by clicking on
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Here's my most recent work as a singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
I'm currently in a multi-year project to write and produce over 40 songs, all requested by friends and family. You can read the requests and listen to the songs I've written here: COMMISSION
A project in which I solicited cover requests, each to be accompanied by some constraint. I recorded 41 songs in 42 weeks.
This is just a place to put other original songs that don't have any particular project attached to them.
I used to live in New York City. From about 1990 to 2003 I played drums, guitar, and bass on many records and at shows.
Here are a few samples of my work from that time.
In fact, they do speak English in What. DREAMHOSTY