tagul

I like visualisation tools and Wordle has proved a nice graphical way to capture the essence of a piece of writing or site.
Tagul (currently free in beta) it claims is more than 'just a toy' (referring to Wordle) and is 'designed to be used on blogs, web pages or any kind of sites as a replacement of ordinary tag clouds'. 'Each tag in Tagul cloud is linked with an URL and is “clickable” that enables visitors to use it for navigation. Also Tagul utilizes widely used flash platform (instead of less common java platform in Wordle) that is light weight and stores the clouds on a CDN to deliver clouds to wide audience instantly. Tagul has some features that Wordle doesn’t, like custom shapes selection and multiply fonts usage in one cloud.'

So with a bit of fiddling and the install of a Flash plugin I got it working here. I deleted a number of irrelevant tags (verbs etc) and have set it to update each day. Links from the tags go to a Google search so there's some interesting potential for education. I'm expecting a number of strange tags to creep their way in as a result but we'll see what happens.