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• Obligatory word cloud of opening remarks at White House Health Care Summit

  By Kerry Mitchell on 02/25/10 @ 3:02 pm | 1 Comment

  Obama’s opening remarks
  

  Alexander’s opening remarks
  

  (created at Wordle and based on transcripts here).

  

• Bailout Bill Wordle

  By Ellen Miller on 10/03/08 @ 12:37 pm | 1 Comment

  Check out this really cool word cloud created out of the 110-page Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that the House failed to pass on Monday. A digital media and technology enthusiast based in San Francisco, who blogs using the pseudonym Thomas Hawk, produced the graphic by pasting the bill into Wordle.