Daily Archives: May 27, 2007

Readability of Blogs

Posted on May 27, 2007 by James

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
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The obligatory anti-DRM post

Posted on May 27, 2007 by James

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… Continue reading

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