Feeding time

[hatmandu]

Here's a silly LJ 'personality test'. It uses three of the feeds described at the LJ bots page - the interests feed has a handy list of the popularity of each interest a user lists; then there's the list of friends/friendsof; and the RSS feed to grab a recent entry and run a readability index on it.

Comments

[_hedgewytch_]

It doesn't work for me - I just get an error.
Might be cos it can't handle the underscores sigh

"Sorry - there was a problem. Check your username was typed properly and Try again."

[hatmandu]

Hm - LJ's feed for you has a different URL structure to the normal one, maybe because of those underscores. I'll investigate and hopefully can tweak the script - I'll let you know!

[_hedgewytch_]

oooh that would be great thank you!
I saw you were writing another one ;o)
Excited to see when its ready

[hatmandu]

Thanks! Anyway, it's fixed for you now - though you get a low score because your journal is friends-locked (this means the script can't reliably get at your writing). Or maybe you're just not weird! :)

The new one is almost finished but I'm waiting a little to launch it as there's been so much traffic to the first one - I don't want to upset my site hosts...

[_hedgewytch_]

Ah fair enough thank you very much!

[hatmandu]

And lo, the new one's ready! This is what it says about lj_nifty... (There still seems to be a problem with your underscores, but I'm looking into it; and there are other ways of getting results this time. Enjoy!)

The Blogalyser reveals...
Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 13.
This suggests that your writing style is conventional
(to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20).
Your blog has 14 sentences per entry, which suggests your general message is distinguished by complexity
(writing for the web should be concise).

CHARACTER MATRIXmale

[_hedgewytch_]

thank you so much ! xxx

[hatmandu]

Aha - thanks for that.