Over on Read/WriteWeb, Richard MacManus draws my attention to a tag cloud of Bill Gates’ CES keynote last week. The tag cloud was prepared by Todd Bishop at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and illustrates the frequency with which Gates used particular words. No real surprises on the top words, but some of the supporting language is interesting.

In comments to his original post, Todd says he’s going to try and get hold of a Jobs transcript, and do the same with that.

If I could find a way to easily, cheaply and reliably capture transcripts of talks I give, I wonder what a similar tag cloud for them would look like? Would I be able to see if the key topics I thought I was going to talk about actually came near the top? And how close a match is there between frequency and either the importance my audience attaches to a topic, or the likelihood that they’ll retain it?

Update: a comparison of Jobs, Gates, and Michael Dell as a control.

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