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title: 'Looking back: Visualizing Silicon Florist headlines from 2012'
date: '2013-01-03T17:16:22-08:00'
type: post
word_count: 111
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categories:
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - Startups
tags:
  - '2012'
  - headlines
  - Portland
  - 'silicon florist'
  - Startups
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# Looking back: Visualizing Silicon Florist headlines from 2012

Sometimes, ridiculously long headlines prove to have some value. Especially when you cram all of those words into a word cloud generator. Which is what I like to do from time to time. So sue me.

If you’re the curious type, here’s what [2012 looked like on Silicon Florist](http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6199840/Silicon_Florist_headlines_2012_%28sans_Portland_and_startups%29 "Silicon Florist headlines 2012") (sans “Portland” and “startups” because otherwise everything else gets too small to see):

[![2012](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/headlines-2012.jpg?resize=600%2C321)](http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6199840/Silicon_Florist_headlines_2012_%28sans_Portland_and_startups%29)