The Jason Salas Experience

It must be the Summer Solstice or Equinoix or whatever they call it...I'm abuzz with ideas tonight. While writing a recommendation letter for a colleague seeking a research grant, I was mulling what words would jump out and be stronger on paper - "prestigious" or "coveted"? "Intellectual acuity" or "keen sense of spatial awareness"? Quirky things like that. I wish I had some way of figuring out what worked best in different scenarios...

(Cue light bulb above head)

I'm going to hack out the algorithm later tonight for a web service (I can't deal with UI right now) that will evaluate a word's relative strength in a given context. Think of this as a thesaurus on steroids. Keep an eye out for this...coming soon to a SOAP directory near you!