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Readability of Blogs

May 27th, 2007 | No Comments | Filed in Personal

I came across this post while on a random Stumble session. On there you will find a little program that can crawl an RSS feed and give a reading ease value. Point it at your blog’s feed and see what it says. My blog has the following results

  • Syllables per word: 1.49
  • Words per sentence: 19.50
  • Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 60.90
  • Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9.61
  • Gunning-Fog Index: 20

which probably means half of you can’t understand what I write, since supposedly you need 20 years of school education to understand this. I think it just shows I’m not the most organised of writers when I put things in my diary. I do have a habit of just typing away with no real planning or ideas.

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The obligatory anti-DRM post

May 27th, 2007 | No Comments | Filed in Technology

It’s been a while since I posted one of these :)  Take your pick from the following;

The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users, opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in freedom) software alternatives.

http://badvista.fsf.org/

or

DefectiveByDesign.org is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market.

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/

and of course, don’t forget

 Sixteen hexadecimal digits that unlock the wonder of most currently released HD-DVD titles from the surly clutches of the AACS revenue content protection system.

link

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