Oct 23, 2008

12 Most Powerful and Influential Topic Clouds

Remember the list of the 50 Most Powerful and Influential Men in Social Media? I've used Wordle to create topic clouds of the concepts that the top 12 of these men are writing about lately. Why 12? Because it's about how old I'm feeling right now. It's my hope that these clouds are accurate depictions of these social media influencers. How do you think they fair?

1. Michael Arrington



2. Pete Cashmore



3. Darren Rowse



4. John Dvorak



5. Frank Kern - This one is a little odd since Frank's posts largely hold video content.



6. Aaron Brazell



7. Jason Calacanis



8. Steve Rubel



9. Willie Crawford



10. Jeremy Shoemaker



11. Leo Laporte



12. Brian Solis



Featurism - I don't rank yet but here it is anyways.

2 comments:

Danny Brown said...

I think this is a great use of the Wordle app, and interesting to see how the Big Guns stack up.

I think the app could be a great way for anyone to offer a quick snippet of what they're about. I've used one for my PR blog and, although simple, says what I'm about in an easy visual manner. And with people having less time to devote to more blogs, it's a good way of seeing whether you'd be interested in a particular writer,

AaronMSB said...

Thanks for the comment Danny. I do see tag clouds more and more on blogs. I like them and use them frequently to find out what some one writes about. What's interesting about the Wordle, is that it actually takes all the text from an RSS feed and not just the denoted tags.

It provides and interesting look into the content, and how the writer writes about it.

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