‘Readability’ post filler
I remember reading somewhere that 'in order to appeal to the widest audience possible', your blog should be at the Junior High level or below.
Well, guess what...
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Um, I just ran shadowlife through it again (just to make sure I was putting in my urls right), and it's hitting Genius now.
My livejournal and review blog hit elementary. My newsletter archive hits junior high.
For a comparison, google.ca (not the news or anything, just the search page), also hits Genius.
"Get those morons away from the search engine before they break it..."
Well, the posts that the front page is displaying has changed since I ran it: there are at least two new posts. So, the output may very well be different. The very act of making the post that comments on the reading level may change the reading level. Think of it as a sort of 'quantum blog readability mechanics'.
As far as google is concerned, the minimalist nature of their front page probably breaks the algorithms used: it probably compares the ratio of 'simple' words to 'non-simple' (look up 'simplified english' and language complexity sometime) to determine how to rank a blog. Google's search page has very few words, and very few tokens that I'd consider 'simple'. So, the non-simple words are probably disproportionate.
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