A cloud is popularly used in blogs to show the relevance of topics covered in the blog. The larger the word shown in the cloud, the more content is considered to be written on the topic related to that word.  Usually blogging software like WordPress, B2Evolution, Drupal and so on use clouds that are linked to tags  and they are known popularly as tag clouds.

For example, if this blog had a large number of posts which have been tagged under Linux, then the tag cloud will show the word “Linux” in a relatively large font size than the rest of the words.

But you do not need to own a blog or website to create a word cloud. Wordle.net is a site which allows you to create your own word cloud within seconds. All you have to do is to enter the words you need in your word cloud or rather, enter a few paragraphs of text such as a part of your thesis or your favorite article or a subject close to your heart and with the press of a button, the site generates a beautiful word cloud for you.

The site also allows you to enter URL of any site or its site feed, and it generates a word cloud of the words found on that site.

The following is the word cloud Wordle generated with the words found on this site.

Word Cloud of LinuxAndFriends.com website