Wordle’s Legal Hurdle

It took me ages to think of a headline for this.  In case you haven’t heard, one of my favourite web 2.0 tools is going through some legal difficulties with regards to its name.  Wordle.net is (or was?) a tool for creating lovely word clouds.  We, as teachers, quickly saw the educational benefits and used them extensively for presentations to show how they could be used for brainstorms, grammar, poetry, etc.

According to the web site:

wordle.net is Down Until Further Notice I am seeking pro bono legal advice, to evaluate a trademark claim against my use of the word “Wordle” for this web site.

Perhaps we might find wordel.net or wordl.net soon or something.  Anyway, there’s a Twitter campaign to #savewordle so if you’re a twitterer please tweet a message of support using the hashtag.

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