Lots of “Wordles” springing up around the place at the moment, so I thought I’d throw something together based on tweets mentioning ala2008 or ala08 (both used as hashtags) during the conference week.

I set up a search on summize, and then pasted the results a page at a time into a text editor. I did clean up the file a bit – the pasted text had some supporting data with it that wasn’t directly part of the tweet – for example the date, resulting in ‘Jun’ being the most common word. Some of this might have been interesting to leave in (e.g. leaving in AM and PM, which I removed, would have shown when people were more active) – but my Wordle, so I decide. Here it is: