Here’s something really cool.

Many of us are familiar with tag clouds, in which larger text indicates higher frequency of that string in some list. A “Web 2.0 thing,” this is often used on del.icio.us and has become popular on blogs using tags. Someone created a service called Wordle, that can generate fancy, customizable text clouds of this sort based on any input. Also, another “Web 2.0” thing that many of you are familiar with is Last.fm (formerly Audioscrobbler, back in the day), a service that collects the music you play on your computer and/or iPod to create statistics, using ID3 tags or the equivalent for non-MP3 formats.

Now, someone got the bright idea to take your last.fm profile and turn it into a Wordle image. Follow the instructions, and you’ll be set to create something like this.

Above was a Wordle thing I made with the last six months’ worth of artist frequency from my last.fm account. Below is one with my overall top artists, since June 2003… kinda. You may also click on these two images for bigger versions.