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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.

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The Hidden Center of the “Gutenberg Galaxy” McLuhan and the Gutenberg Galaxy Technological determinists have always assumed that technology proceeds autonomously, dragging society in its wake, forcing it to adapt. They think that technology arises mostly out of serendipity, and then society eventually finds the appropriate uses for it, and only then do certain social [...]

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And here is the study refered to below. Presented in April 2008. Proof! Just six degrees of separation between us? Jure Leskovec and Eric Horvitz     Access pdf file.   Abstract: We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We [...]

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