Wordle is a cool concept and fun to play with. You can enter words manually or give it a RSS feed to digest and it spits out a word cloud that is just nice to look at.
Here is an example I just did from the NY Times site:
A picture is worth a thousand words right? So how come everyone tries to explain everything with lots and lots of boring words? Check out this unique periodic table of visualization methods and maybe on your next project you can dazzle your customers with something useful.
Fonts always help. It is that simple. While you can’t count on people having much more than the standard Windows fonts, you can incorporate other (cooler) fonts in graphics easily. Hands down the best free font site I have found is dafont. I love their interface, other sites should take note of how simple and [...]