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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:16 PM
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Are you guys watching Leslie Aipac and John King with their friggin' word wall?
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 08:17 PM by BuyingThyme
WTF?

ON EDIT: Word cloud. It's a word cloud.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:18 PM
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1. CNN needs a dictionary? me watching Keith
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:25 PM
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5. They have a new special feature.
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 08:26 PM by BuyingThyme
Using their election-night wall-sized graphics, they created a word collage based on Obama's presentation. The more prevalent the word in Obama's opening remarks, the bigger the word on the collage. Very colorful. They walked up to it a couple times and talked about it. Word cloud.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:28 PM
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8. Ok that might be cool
as a writer I can certainly appreciate gadgets like that,
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:35 PM
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9. It's apparently not an entirely new idea:
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 08:37 PM by BuyingThyme
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:48 PM
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10. Cool, thanks
like almost my word usage counter in my writing program


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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:28 PM
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7. I switched from Keith just long enough to hear
Edited on Tue Mar-24-09 08:29 PM by rocktivity
1) Larry King ask Rahm Emanuel, "You like this job?"

2) Shill O'Reilly insisting that Obama needed to "build confidence" in the American people

I switched right back--that was quite enough!

:scared:
rocktivity
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:19 PM
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2. . . . for the, ahhemm, "visual learners"
:shrug:
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:22 PM
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3. It's like SCTV and Sesame Street all in one neat package.
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Phoonzang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:23 PM
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4. From holograms to something elementary like a word cloud....good job CNN. nt
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 08:26 PM
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6. CNN=Too much technology toys and too little actual journalism.
Doug D.
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