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An Informal Study on the Literacy Level of Security Blogs–We All Get Pwned by Amrit
Posted April 30th, 2008 by rybolov
OK, I saw this really cool widget on a blog somewhere. It tests the literacy level of your blog and tells you at what level you write. Sure, OK, I’ll bite. Bloggers love bling, dontcha know?
Fortunately for anybody who has eyes, the code that the site gives you to put the widget on your blog contains a SEO-spamming link. Oh joy, it’s easily removable if you’re halfway knowledgeable. But you still can use the textbox to feed urls to the machine.
Anyway, in the interest of science and all things egotastical, I submitted some sample security blogs and was highly surprised at some of the results. My rundown on how particular sites rate:
- Emergent Chaos, Adam et al http://www.emergentchaos.com/ Junior High School
- Shrdlu http://layer8.itsecuritygeek.com/ Junior High School
- Anton Chuvakin http://chuvakin.wordpress.com/ Junior High School
- Me http://www.guerilla-ciso.com/ High School
- Rich Mogull http://www.securosis.com/ High School
- Gunnar Peterson http://1raindrop.typepad.com/1_raindrop/ High School
- Alex Hutton http://www.riskanalys.is/ High School
- Mark Curphey http://www.securitybuddha.com/ College (undergrad)
- Chris Hoff http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/ College (postgrad)
- Martin McKeay http://www.mckeay.net/ College (postgrad)
- Amrit Williams http://techbuddha.wordpress.com/ Genius!!
Now if I check out Amrit’s blog tomorrow and he’s got a genius sticker displayed prominently on his site, I’ll take the blame and rage from the blogosphere. It’s only fitting.
To be honest, I’m surprised I didn’t come in at the preschool level, what with my lowbrow sense of humor and all. =)
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10 Comments »
Tags: blog • genius • literacy • pwnage
May 1st, 2008 at 2:33 am
This makes sense: I am guessing that the use of words like “ignominious” and “obstreperous” ups the level at all 🙂 …
… killing the readability in 1 shot!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:49 am
High School? High School?
I write gooder than thant!
May 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am
Junior high! Awesome!!!!!!1
Must be all the l33tsp33k dragging me down. Then again, it’s probably the content.
I have to go shove someone in a locker now, ‘scuse.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Extemporaneous comparisons indeed! the exemplum of Hoff’s decoupage, crimp blog should rate at a genius level.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
My blog broke the scale. It’s past super-genius.
May 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
@Marcin I know, I tried it. *shrugs*
What do you do, create all the content dynamically using weird JavaScript tricks? =)
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Actually… I coded my template to be SEO super-friendly, and it increased my pagerank by 1 and searching Google for “Marcin” yields my site in the first 5 search results. 🙂
I also have caching enabled on the site, so all dynamic content generates a static html file which then gets served to all visitors. When a change is made, such as a new post or comment, the content is regenerated and a new html file is created. That might be causing a problem for the site, I am not sure.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Wow, who knew the world should think so little of me……Thank you developers of Blog Readability Test for pointing out my immaturity and failure to grasp the use of the American English language.
I would also like to thank all of my grade school, middle school, high school teachers, as well as my college professors, for completely failing me. My parents should be addressed as well. Does anybody have the number to Child Protective Services?
Go forth and do good things,
Don C. Weber
May 5th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Don, I think it has something to do with you being from Texas… Just kidding 😀
May 6th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Marcin complains when I start to use big words. 🙁