As someone who can be far too cynical, particularly about technological fads I’ve been surprised at my conversion to twitter. I started using it to find out why it kept being mentioned as a marketing/community tool, pretty sure that I would ditch my account after a couple of hours. A couple of weeks later I’m still there and getting dangerously hooked – to some extent on the app but mainly on those I’m following. A few can be a little too self-publicising for my taste, but as a rule all are extremely interesting and well worth listening to. I’ve tried to keep the numbers of those I’ve followed down to a reasonable number ad restricted to areas I have a strong interest in (tech, politics, stephen fry).

So I’ve now see merit there – but why listen to me, here’s a reference tweeted recently: 5  ways I benefit from twitter

As the bham website has an rss feed associated with it (produced by the UCMS news and events app) I was able to give this word cloud app a go (www.wordle.net). Silly perhaps, but quick and easy.