I ‘discovered’ wordle.net a few days ago and have been having fun with it ever since. And now that FriendFeed has increased the number of items we can see from 300 to 900, thought I’ll mash up both together and bring you word clouds of the last 900 comments of some popular FriendFeeders. This is round one – expect a new round every other day

Louis Gray (FriendFeed)

The One. The dude whose original "List of A-Listers on FriendFeed" pretty much drove adoption of FF. Oh, and I have a habit of naming scripts after people (something that’s come back and bit me more than once when I go searching for long lost scripts), so the Script that produces data for this post is called PinkGray.

FRIENDFEED! People! Google! Techmeme! Matthew! Twitter! Cyndy! Blog! First! Like! THINK! Duncan!(Have I shouted enough?)

Thomas Hawk (FriendFeed)

Dude-with-pseudonym-who-inspired-little-stupid-people-like-me-to-take-photos-without-feeling-bad

Flickr. Photos. People. Yahoo. good. better. great. best. post.

Duncan Riley (FriendFeed)

Needs no intro. I used up all witty words I could think of last time introducing him, duh.

People! Like! Content! FF! Twitter! Techmeme! Louis (Duncan says Louis more than Louis says Duncan ;))

Cyndy (FriendFeed)

The person whom I mistook to be a guy the first time I contacted her. Sorry!

Louis (Cyndy says Louis more than Louis says Cyndy). Jason. +1? like. I expected this to be way more filled with Tech centric words.

Mona (FriendFeed)

I’ll throw in Mona, perhaps the most-fun person to follow on FriendFeed. Get a break from Tech - follow Mona! ;) 

lol! OMG! Yuvi! Yuvi! HAHA! omg! people! YES! btw, HA! love, and ofcourse, bacon! well, that’s what she said

Conclusion

Many of the people on FriendFeed talk about - FriendFeed. And Twitter. Notice how the early adopters, like Duncan, Louis and Thomas Hawk, talk a lot about FriendFeed and Twitter. And compare it to the things Mona talks about. Says something? FriendFeed going mainstream/moving away from pure-tech-only perspective?

Also, lots of people seem to use the word one way more than I expected. I haven’t even consciously encountered the word yet - anyone who can shed light on this?

Anyway, that’s it for today - 5 Friendfeeders, 4 from Tech and one from oh-not-so-tech. Recommendations for Round 3 go in the comments (I already have round 2 in mind :D).

Small Note: Oh, and anybody interested in sponsoring The Statbot? And a side project that I’m doing? Ping me for details (yuvipanda@gmail.com on IM and Email). Won’t cost much, promise