Blog Word Frequency Pie Chart — How big are your pieces?

origamifreak began a March 13, 2007 blog post as follows: "I did a little experiment today."

I love things that begin quietly like that.

But I digress: this isn't about me, it's about the wonderful execution and results of that experiment, part of which you can visualize above and read about in their entirety here.

The caption for the graphic above reads: "The rings are, in order from outside in: this blog, Abstractions, Terminus Est, bookofjoe."

origamifreak's accompanying email read, "I wonder if you've ever heard of a utility that ranks word distributions on websites the way Amazon does books? I think this could be an interesting way to browse the web, and I can't imagine I'm the only one who has thought of this."

The next day a new email added, "I wish someone would write a real-time word distribution collator. They could set a threshold for the number of shared rare words between the desired number of blogs, and show you similar blogs that use the same kinds of rare words. I'm surprised Google hasn't already done something like this.... Maybe they're working on it and we just don't know about it yet? I've emailed them and suggested it to the blogsearch team. Who knows? :-)."

Me, I think it would be very cool to find out whose Venn diagrams crossed with mine, with yoctosecond and TechnoDolt™ being the operative terms.

w00t!