The Mac Lawyer As Seen By Wordle

Have you heard of Wordle?  If not, you may want to check it out.  Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide, with these clouds giving greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.  You can "wordle" selected text, a whole document, or an entire website / blog. 

In addition to just be a cool toy to play with, I think that Wordle can be an effective tool for attorneys interested in analyzing specific documents.  For instance, if a personal injury attorney sends a demand letter to an insurance adjuster, he might be interested in first seeing what the focus of the letter is from the word cloud produced.

When I plugged in The Mac Lawyer, it produced the following word cloud:

Comments

[Eric Rhodes]

That's cool, I plugged in my blog (on technology & immigration law) and the five most prominent words were Immigration, Property, Life, World, and Story. Spot on!