Found a cool new toy on TechCrunch this morning.  Wordle takes text or a URL and creates a neat visualization (akin to a Wordpress Tag Cloud) based upon the frequency of words.  Words that appear more frequently within the text are rendered in a larger font.

Here’s a visualization of the current World of Warcraft EULA:

And here’s the World of Warcraft TOU:

Of course, it may not be terribly useful from a legal perspective.  As one TechCrunch user points out:

This may looks [sic] cool, but the current implementation is COMPLETELY WORTHLESS.

It is NOT the frequency of the words that matter in a legal contract. It is what the terms actually say. This is why unethical companies bury clauses in fine print. They hope no one will catch them out.

While that is probably true, isn’t it a somewhat telling that the words “without,” “notice,” “arbitration,” and “limitation” are huge in both images?

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