I was born in
1967,
when computers looked like (a).
At the time of this writing,
computers mostly look like
(b), but to me, computers
are actually supposed to look like
(c), so I'm kind of perpetually
bewildered.
I'm a musician; I write songs, sing them, and play lots of instruments. My most recent projects are these:
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
.
Wordle is currently dead; it depends on a technology that's no longer supported in any browser. I have hopes to bring it back to life.
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