Narcissistic Friday post: Wordle your CV!
“Wordle”:http://www.wordle.net is a web app that takes text and turns it into word clouds. Many of you are already familiar with tag clouds — the more often the word is used the bigger it gets. My friend Jeff recently “Wordled his resume”:http://jeffmcneill.com/2008/10/28/jeff-mcneill-resume-in-wordle/ and I thought: woot ego therapy for the end of the week! So here is my CV:
Just for fun, is anyone else willing to just open their CVs, cut and paste the contents into Wordle, and see what comes out?
Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org
Here’s mine:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/366527/Kerim%27s_CV
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Thought I’d give it a try with my last paper.
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/366550/Managing_Conflict_Creatively
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i made wordles from several of my papers last week. i think these are more interesting (tho perhaps no less narcissistic) than my cv would be –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wayneandwax/tags/wordle/
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very cool
a recent conference paper http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/366857/Who_Ent_Dead_Badly_Wounded
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I did the first chapter of my dissertation at one point, but when I tried it just now it seriously froze my computer. So instead, my “CV”:http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/366902/anthro_cv_wordle_1 – I like this ‘ego therapy’ business.
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Also, I love how, through coincidence of title and such, my wordle strongly pairs the words “dissertation” and “good” – if only my committee had felt the same way…
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Here’s a three I did based on the abstract and the first chapter of my dissertation. It is fun:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/51979/Lisu_Marriage_and_Bridewealth
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/51937/Lisu_kinship
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/51948/Lisu_dissertation_abstract
As I put in the caption for this on my blog — can you guess what my topic and conclusions were from this?
it’s very amusing. BTW, for a lovely interactive 3-D thesaurus, check out http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
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And, BTW, note the juxtaposition of imaginary, husbands, and wealth in Lisu kinship; and bridewealth and opium in Lisu Marriage & Bridewealth.
Adam, from your wordle, I’d like your dissertation!
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Here’s the cv:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/369493/CV_wordle
I wordled my research statement earlier this year – that seemed to reveal more about my stuff than my cv!
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Read this piece this morning via RSS, and had to go try it. Here’s mine:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/370055/grad_student
I took a screen capture and decided to load it (evetually) on my campus web page, since it is much more explanatory than the CV :::chuckle:::
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And my dissertation proposal (still a work in progress):
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/370108/Flasmobs_as_Ritual_Dissertation_Proposal
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yay savage minds finally discovered wordle…. it is a great toy.
here’s my ego cv: http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/371003/mcv
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I did a post a while back on using wordle pedagogically:
http://carldyke.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/wordle-pedagogy/
Because I get so many papers that read like wordles anyway, the idea was to have students wordle drafts of their first paragraphs, exchange them, and see how much of each other’s meaning they could reconstruct. I thought it would be a good way to dramatize the difference between a coherent thought and a pile of words (or a culture and a pile of artifacts, I guess).
I did try it this semester (I actually started the term by handing out a wordle of the syllabus, so there was some foundation) and found the exercise promising. The students were more bemused than edified, but they enjoyed it in a funhouse-mirror kind of way. Any thoughts about how to improve the strategy?
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Another CV:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/367575/My_CV
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The next issue of Museum Anthropology
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/376593/Museum_Anthropology_32_1
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Here’s my vita:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/379732/harwellvita
And here’s one of my forthcoming articles:
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/379740/Alabama_Quakers
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