Here’s a Wordle-created word cloud of John Temple’s “Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News” speech from this past September. (Temple, via Skype, which didn’t work, so via speaker phone, was a guest during my Future of News in the Digital Age class last week.) I always think these word clouds are an interesting way to take a different look at what’s being said/written:
‘Web’ first?
(I admittedly took the Wordle idea from Robert Hernandez’s recent post that uses word clouds to examine current journalism job listings. It also continues the journo-programmer debate I blogged about a couple weeks ago.)
As for Temple’s talk with us last week, the biggest take-away I jotted down in my notebook was the idea that when a newspaper launches a Web-based venture, it should be free of the conventions of the print product — even if it hurts that product.
We are living in an era of “creative destruction,” says Temple, but it’s an exciting time.
I agree.
