State of the Union Address Tag Cloud
I thought we posted on this last year. Jason Griffey takes The State of the Union address and remixes the top 75 words into a tag cloud. Now that he’s done it two years in a row, it could be an interesting look at the state of affairs over the last two years.
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[…] Published by jimgroom January 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. The State of the Union Tag Cloud post by Jim Coe over at Bionic Teaching speaks for […]