God, I just love this guy's posts. He's so freaking enthusiastic. It's really infectious. Normally, I'm not a big fan of the exclamation point, but somehow he makes it work.
Here is one project which does a cloud view of top news in reddit.
The author has a python and a lisp version. http://nearfar.org/git.html
But I can't get the url to the actual cloud view page.