What were they saying? Tag Clouds from US Presidential Speeches from 1776 to the present

Sliding the timeline bar across the tag cloud space provides an impressive look at the key topics at the "top of mind" in Presidential speeches from John Adams to George W.

This demo also shows the visualizing power of the tag cloud done with just 2 levels of font size and color differentiation. Each cloud contains 100 tags.

From the website of Chirag Mehta a 26 year old kayaking programmer. Original link from the ifBook blog on a networkedbook: GamerTheory

US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud - Chirag Mehta : chir.ag

The Future of Media - updated

Click on this image to get a bigger view of the diagram prepared for the Future of Media Summit in July 2006. The post is updated from my original in July 2006.

The podcast by Art Kleiner is a gem -

VIOSTREAM - powered by Viocorp - Communicating Better: "

as is the research report you can get by clicking below:

::..Future of Media Summit 2006 - Research ..::
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/and here is more from if:book: blogging restructures consciousness?: "'My hunch,' she says, 'is that things are going two ways: writers as orchestrators of mass creativity, or writers as wielders of a new rhetoric.' "

Both views appear to be valid - but the Networked Book is clearly moving in the realm of writers as orchestrators.