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	<title>D&#039;Arcy Norman dot net &#187; readability</title>
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		<title>Blog Readability Test</title>
		<link>http://www.darcynorman.net/2007/11/15/blog-readability-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Paul&#8217;s post about the Blog Readability Test, I pumped in my own URL just for kicks. Here&#8217;s the result:



I take that as a compliment, and it&#8217;s probably pretty easily explained by the algorithm. I tend to write short, active-tense sentences with not many long words. The readability test doesn&#8217;t take the actual content into [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following <a href="http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2007/11/the-blog-readab.html">Paul&#8217;s post</a> about the <a href="http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx">Blog Readability Test</a>, I pumped in my own URL just for kicks. Here&#8217;s the result:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx"></p>
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<p>I take that as a compliment, and it&#8217;s probably pretty easily explained by the algorithm. I tend to write short, active-tense sentences with not many long words. The readability test doesn&#8217;t take the actual content into account, just the lengths of words, sentences and paragraphs. And, if there are any elementary school kids reading this blog, I apologize for the potty mouth in the last post. Actually, the blog is probably filtered in your school, so no worries&#8230;</p>
<p>ps. if you take the test and post the results on your blog, beware the sneaky, sneaky person who runs the service. The HTML snippet they provide includes a spam ad hyperlink. Not cool. So just be sure to remove that before posting. Play safe, kids. And knowing is half the battle.</p>
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