A new way to view word lists: Word Clouds. Lets you see a list weighted visually, so that the more often the word has been listed, the larger it appears. Similar (ok, fine: identical) to the way Flickr does it.

To all you Christians out there, I’d like to wish you a very happy Christmas. And to everyone else, I hope you have the merriest of Mondays.

Two updates today. First, Lampbane set up a Flickr group for Wordies, open to all. I’m thrilled about this — there’s something inately interesting about photos of signage and text, heightened by the slight irony of a group of people from a text-only logophile site sharing photographs. Maybe the slogan for the group should be “Like Wordie, but without all the words.”

This joins the LibraryThing group for Wordies set up by angharad.

One good use for the Flickr group might be posting images related to a specific word list, and it will be easier to link the two now that word lists have proper description fields. Up until now it seems like most of us have been using comments to describe our lists, which was imperfect, since the description would get pushed to the bottom of the page as more comments were added. Well, no longer — you can add a proper description, when either creating or editing a list, and it will stay up top where it belongs, below the list name.

Added two frequently requested features: the abilities to move words between lists and to see who it was who first listed a word. Both pretty self-explanatory: to move a word, go to the list it’s currently on, click the ‘move’ link next to the word, select the target list, and click the little button. To see who first listed a word, go to any word page and look. Wordie at the top of the list got first blood, with the most recent person to add the word appearing at the bottom.

Please let me know if you see any weird behaviors; as usual, I cranked these out and didn’t test a whole heck of a lot. Though they seem to be working fine so far.