Web 2.0 is really awesome, if you ask me. One of hundreds of reasons why I love Web 2.0 is the creativity that websites are creating on a daily basis. Have you ever wanted to express yourself in a way that has never been done before? Well, I have the website for you.  My friends, you must check out Wordle.

Wordle was created by Jonathan Feinberg. According to Wordle, Wordle is “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” In other words, it’s a way of expressing yourself by something you write and then Wordle uses an algorithym to create an artistic piece of what you expressed in the words you wrote. I hope that makes sense.

So, the best way for me to show you (besides trying it out for yourself) is to show you my 2 Wordles that I created. I hope you enjoy them.  The first wordle is about 3 paragraphs I wrote about who I am, what makes me the person I am and what describes me.

My second Wordle was created by taking every word in this blog post and creating a Wordle from the words in this post.

So there you go! How cool is this? Go to Wordle and try yours out and leave your HTML code in the comments or show us a link to yours once you save it.

I’ve blogged before which podcasts and websites I adore and I’ve been remiss to let my readers know of one in particular. Lifehacker.com is phenomenal. They have some of the best articles any computer lover (Windows or Apple) would read on a daily basis. I’ve also found several useful tips on life’s daily challenges on this website. It’s not just for us computer geeks. And lets face it, friends, in this day and age, your RSS-Reader can blow up with some pretty useless material.

Speaking of awesome websites, a lot of my coworkers and friends ask me how I know so much material in regards to technology and every day news. I have to give up my secret, which really is no secret. Any one of you who love scanning the internet sites for the latest headlines must use a RSS reader. And for those who aren’t familiar with what RSS means click here. I would suggest the RSS reader NetNewsWire for those of you who have Macs and Google’s RSS-Reader (simply called Google Reader) is fantastic and easy to use for those Windows users.