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Tom Dawkins

Social entrepreneur, activist, organizer, project junkie, social media enthusiast. Previously Founder of @vibewire and Social Media Director at @AshokaTweets, now Co-Founder of @StartSomeGood and mayor of the Black Rock City Farmers Market.

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January 24, 2012

Word cloud of the State of the Union

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H/t Americablog.

He also said "gay" for the first-time ever in the State of the Union.

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January 25, 2011

The (not so hidden) messages of Cosmo and Maxim

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I love word clouds for getting a snapshot of meaning from written information. So I was fascinated to see word clouds produced from the covers of Cosmo and Maxim magazines.

Can you tell which is which?:

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Here's another interesting recent word cloud-based comparison, between Obama's and Palin's post-Tucson shooting speeches:

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