Since trying Wordie.org, my interest has waned — or maybe it is just what’s available in the application. I now have four word lists, that, occassionally, when bored, I add to. But there’s something missing. The interaction elements just aren’t set up right for me. I do like that you can do word clouds of your lists to see how often some words end up in other lists.

I came across a few other new word-type online experiments — oneword and onecaption. The idea behind these is to use your instant association with a word (or a photograph) and write what comes to mind. On oneword, what people seem to do is write some random sentences about the word — the site concept didn’t really appeal to me. Onecaption, seemed like a better idea, but it isn’t that compelling — the same picture has been up for days, and the list of captions that people create are in random order. It would be interesting to perhaps vote on them, or have the ability to comment, or something. I thought it could be useful as an activity to stimulate creativity, but there would need to be a new picture or image to write about every day.