tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44110772112822281582024-02-19T00:56:55.622-08:00Concordle - Not so pretty cousin of WordleLadislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-28015004645118401252011-07-09T20:40:00.000-07:002011-07-09T22:17:41.201-07:00Some people found and used concordleGoogle the <a href="http://folk.uib.no/nfylk/concordle/">concordle</a> and you might find its use. As google is becoming more clever to search<br />mis-spelled information, it becomes difficult to find real<br /><a href="http://folk.uib.no/nfylk/concordle/">concordle</a> as compared to "Concored el ..." or "Concord Le ....".<br /><br />Still, by adding more words, one can find some. There is a new one for me:<br /><a href="http://sanalokul.biz/emurlc/blog/2010/07/20/ive-looked-at-clouds-from-both-sides-now/"><br />http://sanalokul.biz/emurlc/blog/2010/07/20/ive-looked-at-clouds-from-both-sides-now/</a>.<br />This one just recommends to try concordle at <a href="http://sanalokul.biz/emurlc/blog/2010/07/20/ive-looked-at-clouds-from-both-sides-now/"><br />EMU LANGUAGE CENTRE BLOG</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.netdynam.org/2009/04/04/tweet-tweet-twitter/"><br />http://www.netdynam.org/2009/04/04/tweet-tweet-twitter/</a> (look for Frank Rapport says:<br />April 5, 2009 and the next comment)<br /><!-- <a href="BBBB">BBBB</a> --><br />Steve Neufeld:<a href="http://groups.diigo.com/group/wordle/content/user/stevedneufeld"><br />http://groups.diigo.com/group/wordle/content/user/stevedneufeld</a><br /><br /><br />Steve is using concordle in courses. One example, with text about concordances, historical:<a href="http://cte319.pbworks.com/w/page/30720613/activity%20-%20introduction%20to%20ddl"><br />http://cte319.pbworks.com/w/page/30720613/activity%20-%20introduction%20to%20ddl</a>.<br />Here concordle is kept with a nicer original input:<br /><a href="http://cte319.pbworks.com/f/concordle.htm">http://cte319.pbworks.com/f/concordle.htm</a><br /><br />University teaching: Real Teaching - University College London:<br />"An Introduction to Word Grammar" by Richard Hudson<br /><a href="http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/i2wg/TheGym/10.4.htm">http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/i2wg/TheGym/10.4.htm</a><br />Look for "....lexical relations and morphology in your text, as follows...."<br /><br /><b>Diigo: </b><i>Stephen Thergesen's</i> List: Ultimate English<br /><a href="http://www.diigo.com/list/stephentimothy/ultimate-english">http://www.diigo.com/list/stephentimothy/ultimate-english</a><br />There is a tag for concordle:<br /><a href="http://www.diigo.com/user/stephentimothy/concordle">http://www.diigo.com/user/stephentimothy/concordle</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><!-- <a href="BBBB">BBBB</a><br /><br /><a href="BBBB">BBBB</a><br /> <br />-->Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-19770671545021345402010-08-27T23:55:00.000-07:002010-08-28T00:13:40.716-07:00UTF-8 and other pleasuresWhen I played with concordle 2 years ago, the world was only very little UTF-ized, so concordle works with the text where A is 65 and B is 65, while @ is 64. And so on, the unwanted signs as quotes and commas can all be listed easily, there are relatively few of them. So when you copied a text from a page into concordle, usually all went well. Now the world is UTF-8 and perhaps even threatening to become UTF-16-ized, I do not really know. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Warning</span>: as the situation is now, concordle can do strange things with a new text, because it might contain encoding which upsets concordle's simple mind knowing ASCII-like with a little bit of some ISO.<br /><br />What is UTF-8? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8">UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode.(yes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8)</a>. So I will need to do some more work on this soon!<br /><br />For now: If you want to use a bit seriously concordle, be sure that the entered text does not contain "variable length encoding". It can be quotes (why are quotes not just a simple thing? Do not ask me!) or even a hyphen or minus (hyphen and minus are not the same thing, you see!). I will need to dive into Unicode and its 8-bit cousin - or incarnation.Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-11116181404075918132008-10-07T10:44:00.000-07:002009-04-13T23:29:28.676-07:00Concordle and Many Eyes<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">Concordle</a> - Not so pretty cousin of <a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Concordle lives at </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://folk.uib.no/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">http://folk.uib.no/nfylk/concordle/</a> earlier: http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />SO I HAVE MANAGED TO UPSET THE TEMPLATE! Perhaps sometimes I will fix that. Does anybody know how?</span><br /></span><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle_dev/">Concordle</a> and <a href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home">Many Eyes</a> (as well as </span></span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/"><span style="font-size:100%;">Concordle</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" > and </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;" href="http://wordle.net/">Wordle</a> )<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">What I call Concordle seems to be related to IBM's Many Eyes </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home">http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home</a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">in particular</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Tag_Cloud.html">http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/page/Tag_Cloud.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It also seems that the "Double Concordle" (which is now just a test using "frames") at my</span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle_dev/double_concordle/">http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle_dev/double_concordle/</a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">also does things similar to the IBM services - but as a Toy perhaps.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">My service is that you can take the page with you, do anything with it, except of trying to misuse it somehow (do not quite know how, but .... ). Also, I am not trying to steal the ideas from Many Eyes, I simply followed the "Wordle Cloud idea" and played sometimes with "the Concordle"</span></span>Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-16290804339371540002008-10-01T05:52:00.000-07:002008-10-04T01:41:24.061-07:00Concordle - Not so pretty cousin of Wordle ( October )<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">Concordle</a> - Not so pretty cousin of <a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Concordle lives at </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is a picture gallery of wordles and concordles<br />The pictures of wordles are made by </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >SO I HAVE MANAGED TO UPSET THE TEMPLATE! Perhaps sometimes I will fix that. Does anybody know how?<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Disclaimer or Claimer: I am a physicist, not web developer.<br />Part of my motivation for this project is simply to learn JavaSript to a certain degree<br />necessary for my plans to do some graphics using Canvas and some simple teaching<br />examples using an approach similar to Concordle. This means: Simple "Rapid Prototyping"<br />style of programming; Rather richly commented code; You can see the code most of the time;<br /><br />Another piece of motivation: I would like to have examples for the discussion of<br />the sad state of programming on this Planet. All the libraries, objects, version controls,<br />Visual Studio(s) and IDE system (integrating development environments) make the code<br />unavailable. Here is my tribute to spagheti code - but with comments.<br /><br />Concordle is a TOY. But I hope that you will see its potential. New features kept coming<br />up - keeping me from my other work (a bit). Now concordle is in a stage I can live with.<br /><br />I would like to have a Twin Concordle, where all functions are working for two parallel texts,<br />clicking on one will also do similar things in the other one (the concordance snippets) - and<br />these could be seen beside each other. But for this I think the code should be a bit redesigned.<br /><br />As you can see in the code, it just contains copies and copies of copies of code snippets and<br />functions. This should be filtered into smaller number of functions with slightly more general<br />functionality - and after all - a little bit of code design.<br /><br /><br /></span></span>Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-33031060756635619002008-10-01T05:44:00.000-07:002008-10-01T05:50:55.535-07:00Ultimate open source<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At this address </span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle_dev/" target="_blank">http://www.uib.no/people/<wbr>nfylk/concordle_dev/</a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">you can click on </span><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle_dev/concordle_opened.html">concordle_opened.html</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">It will download Concordle into a HTML/JavaScript Editor.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can change things in the source and run the Concordle.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can save the changes as new versions of concordle.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">How: select the text in the editor and paste it to your favorite</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">text editor (NOT microsoft word! ) - textedit.app or notepad or .....</span></span>Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-32233965677544280172008-10-01T05:06:00.000-07:002008-10-01T06:06:53.815-07:00Help text in Concordle<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >What can you do with Concordle?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It is easily understood when you just click on all the links.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I have chosen to use the links instead of buttons, they have the same usability, but the links are simpler. They just work.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">In the first text field is as a standard my example text.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This can be cleaned and new text entered, probably you will just copy some text from a web page.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The omitted words - they are omitted from the analysis and the display,but they are kept in the memory.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The cloud of words can be clicked on - snippets of neighbouring text are shown in the concordance area.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">You can also click on the various snippets - i.e. on the middle word there - and a new large snippet of about 60 words will appear. The omitted words are visible there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">All of the extra text areas can be closed by clicking on the appropriate link</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">How to save something from this page?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">If you use SeaMonkey, you can copy and paste the text into the composer window, change the fonts to anything reasonably nice, and save the results.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The cloud can be shrinked or stretched. Try that</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This page is the programme. Just save the page and you have the program too.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The whole source is about 770 lines, many of them empty. From these 770 about 500 lines are the program in Javascript, with many comments. You might be able to change many details in function and appearance, if you read and change the source.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">To change the source, use a text editor. Read also the bottom of this page.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is all "preliminary", but you never know, it might stay that way.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Plans: Add color variation, improve the table cloud function, make a double concordle.</span><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;" >This help text belongs to the first usable version, September 30th, 2008</span></span><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">And here is a screenshot with hints:</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg53cUAgHK9Gt3S6Lss_wbdI9f9byIWfgDpS_spfFlFWwBulxx0KVCsU8yL7wj7TtGD7e4mjImlK9pJy3-5iecago1Xjai0PLolo6PAmWrkof2c8Dt3dO0pWoG_tYLlrRwN2vtovdmcUY/s1600-h/concordle-shot-explain.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 476px; height: 632px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg53cUAgHK9Gt3S6Lss_wbdI9f9byIWfgDpS_spfFlFWwBulxx0KVCsU8yL7wj7TtGD7e4mjImlK9pJy3-5iecago1Xjai0PLolo6PAmWrkof2c8Dt3dO0pWoG_tYLlrRwN2vtovdmcUY/s400/concordle-shot-explain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252164667836170210" border="0" /></a>Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-71783891611527481172008-09-30T14:52:00.000-07:002008-09-30T15:53:52.460-07:00Concordle - Not so pretty cousin of Wordle - Picture Gallery<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">Concordle</a> - Not so pretty cousin of <a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Concordle lives at </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is a picture gallery of wordles and concordles<br />The pictures of wordles are made by </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">SO I HAVE MANAGED TO UPSET THE TEMPLATE! Perhaps sometimes I will fix that!</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVNcB-W59o82Ws3Hf3A_Me8q5H0sncRHv8dc4u5dv_XMgSidjkRNS35idelJ36np9lLdyEe0Gw2TA3RfnP9a-rNO5-tKu-Lr4SOtLC8VIsuJyNbd5DxWpI7C1RkMkaEXys-GXLjtjmOk/s1600-h/wordle_of_concordle-color.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimVNcB-W59o82Ws3Hf3A_Me8q5H0sncRHv8dc4u5dv_XMgSidjkRNS35idelJ36np9lLdyEe0Gw2TA3RfnP9a-rNO5-tKu-Lr4SOtLC8VIsuJyNbd5DxWpI7C1RkMkaEXys-GXLjtjmOk/s400/wordle_of_concordle-color.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251940214684627458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">made by </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><hr /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4JlsN4qa5UX6ZZOVZj1WqERJvlh8gr9S2SV52Ec2e1MksRnmG60u6LhQKl7D2HP3xdaX5Z2V2zGdxBeZjFiUY_uuQL2koVvnrqGX9w2BHe8nSEUj0hAkanDAUEzrpmkc3z2yH5V8Q9w/s1600-h/concordle-seamonkey-50.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4JlsN4qa5UX6ZZOVZj1WqERJvlh8gr9S2SV52Ec2e1MksRnmG60u6LhQKl7D2HP3xdaX5Z2V2zGdxBeZjFiUY_uuQL2koVvnrqGX9w2BHe8nSEUj0hAkanDAUEzrpmkc3z2yH5V8Q9w/s400/concordle-seamonkey-50.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251940212446075330" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">made by Concordle</a></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><hr /></span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOfqYvHaWqF3tm3MebRFzJRr2dRcXT5uEE-lIHyRairPqaOzWD_GbZwvoSXZ_dR6J3LJG9-6XwGEgQRqgBr1Lfgfxv17bRBQHgn57qIiLP_sI2gV5FKbqTC8s92D15J4YfyJBZ5unaUs/s1600-h/concordle-real-67.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikOfqYvHaWqF3tm3MebRFzJRr2dRcXT5uEE-lIHyRairPqaOzWD_GbZwvoSXZ_dR6J3LJG9-6XwGEgQRqgBr1Lfgfxv17bRBQHgn57qIiLP_sI2gV5FKbqTC8s92D15J4YfyJBZ5unaUs/s400/concordle-real-67.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251940216528365314" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">made by Concordle</a><br /><hr /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0r0oQtai0Vm_UI5S6VpxmpLhNM3tr77K09TY6WIY1NSRgiStIDr_j8IslmLi9sQj2pJeuG4WSKU_o7fWNLw_rH0spyzIPzMGotsyAJKVfyZ99rD95frFX7dqul_5cDmkRg8VaSZ4haQ/s1600-h/wordle_of_concordle-script.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0r0oQtai0Vm_UI5S6VpxmpLhNM3tr77K09TY6WIY1NSRgiStIDr_j8IslmLi9sQj2pJeuG4WSKU_o7fWNLw_rH0spyzIPzMGotsyAJKVfyZ99rD95frFX7dqul_5cDmkRg8VaSZ4haQ/s400/wordle_of_concordle-script.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251940217641919682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">made by </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><hr /></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWC2PQRxJeNiPEMDgID6Ehj8TbH7SypuAW-chGNB55sXsoqg5im17MHCZjEk5upYXbjCHgpNFBUAi4Az4McoinWQchJehjzDsb80ifmaV9a3qWdSlYODVc-XJFBPkPz9_4DbcLjc2Gos/s1600-h/wordle_of_concordle-crossed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 474px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWC2PQRxJeNiPEMDgID6Ehj8TbH7SypuAW-chGNB55sXsoqg5im17MHCZjEk5upYXbjCHgpNFBUAi4Az4McoinWQchJehjzDsb80ifmaV9a3qWdSlYODVc-XJFBPkPz9_4DbcLjc2Gos/s320/wordle_of_concordle-crossed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251938635982267218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> made by </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><hr /></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJq9tPy4DkgVB2YmsCj9Z86L5oVlGbMRZxwJRFOZfc2v7V__M6LipzcIlThK0n-3FGLpoTcbr8E4PFuZKXjrRaapBzoq6LJo5QKLJeVOia2D12TodECViG99RiErNh38vWxsCLOkFBYZM/s1600-h/wordle_of_concordle-cloud.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 569px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJq9tPy4DkgVB2YmsCj9Z86L5oVlGbMRZxwJRFOZfc2v7V__M6LipzcIlThK0n-3FGLpoTcbr8E4PFuZKXjrRaapBzoq6LJo5QKLJeVOia2D12TodECViG99RiErNh38vWxsCLOkFBYZM/s320/wordle_of_concordle-cloud.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251937190251712354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> made by </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><hr /></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span></div>Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4411077211282228158.post-58925671138197345892008-09-30T13:40:00.000-07:002008-09-30T15:52:21.657-07:00Concordle - Not so pretty cousin of Wordle<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Concordle lives at </span></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;">www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Concordle is a cousin of Wordle, not so pretty, but it can do much more.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It is my entry to JavaScript. It took about 2 weeks of occasional thinking and two nearly full days of work.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is the title-line of Concordle:</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.uib.no/people/nfylk/concordle/" style="color: red;"> Concordle</a> - Not so pretty cousin of <a href="http://wordle.net/" style="color: red;">Wordle</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/219960/Concordle" title="Wordle: Concordle"><img src="http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/219960/Concordle" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 4px;" /></a></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPLsXT8PqQzRftEkONxT686C01WTTwUJg7VpbX0bvCvWzDmxmH80erb2Qppx7w5MxVnMPvp5CelubxdYnzUo8r0rOHHVTLiQW6O9ZGfsZy2xzS4o6ggcngkqhFQ8M-Pvv8fg98aHaR3d8/s1600-h/concordle-seamonkey-33.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPLsXT8PqQzRftEkONxT686C01WTTwUJg7VpbX0bvCvWzDmxmH80erb2Qppx7w5MxVnMPvp5CelubxdYnzUo8r0rOHHVTLiQW6O9ZGfsZy2xzS4o6ggcngkqhFQ8M-Pvv8fg98aHaR3d8/s200/concordle-seamonkey-33.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251925050059017970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is a Wordle of the text below ....And a (baby) Concordle looks like the this</span></span><br /></span><hr style="height: 2px;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Who is Concordle?</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">She is a not so pretty cousin of Wordle, who recently became very popular.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Wordle is a Java application (available as an applet)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> who makes beautiful word clouds. Such a cloud is made according to a rule</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> that a more frequent word gets a bigger type (or font). Also colors can be used</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> for various coding, or just for beauty's sake.</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Wordle makes beautiful clouds with beautiful fonts and many colors, and you</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> can play with it, possibly even produce a useful presentation or analysis.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Several people mentioned the potential of Wordle for research or teaching,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> even at elementary schools. Wordle is beautiful, fascinating to play with,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Wordle makes beautiful clouds. But that is the end - beautiful pictures of a text.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Concordle has one point common with Wordle: it makes word clouds. But these are only text, and in a browser in general the choice of fonts is limited, so the clouds are not so very pretty. But it is much more clever:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> All the words in the cloud ar clickble, i.e. links to concordancer function.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Wikipedia will tell you what a concordancer is, in case that you do not know from before.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> So Concordle is a little concordancer which can be really used in research and</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"> for some types of teaching. Thus it has a wastly broader capabilities than Wordle.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">If your text contains 10 times the word "concordance", you might like to see why.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">So you click on the big CONCORDANCE and all 10 the snippets of text arround the</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">ten occurrences of concordance in the text.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">A real concordancer program can be used in linguistic studies, and also as a</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">tool for other types of analysis. A real free corcondancer is available, as</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">a Wikipedia page tells us. A real concordancer program makes the whole</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">concordance available at once, possibly on texts of tens of thousands of words.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Concordle works with texts of several thousands words without problems,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">but as well as Wordle, Concordle is basically an educational toy,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">not strong enough for heavy duty analysis of whole books or even sets of books.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Why have I written Concordle? The idea came naturally from Wordle. Besides, it is</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">a little tribute to my friend prof. Ralph Jewell of University of Bergen, who introduced me</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">to his use of concordance in philosophical analysis some 20 years ago. Further, I have</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">a long time talked about how useful JavaScript can be for general programming,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">not only for AJAX and Gmail. So now I have written sort of large program.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Many people asked the author of Wordle for the source code.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Wordle is based on proprietary IBM libraries and thus not of open source.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">In contrast, Concordle is based on my learning to program in JavaScript,</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">so the source is not only free, but documented and inviting for improvements.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">If you are going to use Concordle, a little link and a mention of the</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">author would be greatly appreciated. Become friends with Concordle!</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span>SO I HAVE MANAGED TO UPSET THE TEMPLATE! Perhaps sometimes I will fix that!<br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/kocbach/ConcordleNotSoPrettyCousinOfWordle?authkey=QJ2ATfjrTNg#">Pictures from these pages</a><br /><br /></span>Ladislav Kocbachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00712881728555589075noreply@blogger.com0