The above image is a word cloud generated from about 1200 tweets (that is, messages posted on the microblogging service Twitter). All these tweets are related to the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), which was recently held in San Diego, California (May 23-27).

Please wait for my next blog post, where I'm going to tell you about a few things that could be learnt about microbes by following the ASM Meeting on the internet -- no matter your physical location on Earth (and beyond?). Also, I'm going to explain how I made the Word Cloud -- I'm pretty sure there must be a better and easier way to do this, so I would certainly appreciate your feedback on my next post.

Note: unfortunately, the tags in the Cloud are not hyperlinked. The image was generated using Wordle.