{"id":6023,"date":"2010-07-19T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2010-07-19T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T08:00:48","slug":"i-writebot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6023","title":{"rendered":"I, Writebot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of places on the web have pointed toward &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/iwl.me\/\">I Write Like<\/a>,&#8221; a site which analyzes your writing style (assuming you have a style) and vocabulary, and compares that to a somewhat limited database of authors.  According to the algorithm, I write like David Foster Wallace<sup>1<\/sup> (with one Dan Brown outlier; apparently some find a Dan Brown comparison to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/17\/i-write-like-website-goes_n_650037.html\">off-putting<\/a>).   Or, from another perspective, my writing least resembles the other writers.<\/p>\n<p>The only David Foster Wallace I have read would be short snippets from things posted by DFW fans who write blogs I read; I get the impression that it&#8217;s a highly nonlinear effect \u2014 if you like DFW, you really, really like DFW.  And he&#8217;s been in the news in recent years: his death (a great career move for so many) and subsequent discovery of unfinished works.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>I am told his works are heavily footnoted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of places on the web have pointed toward &#8220;I Write Like,&#8221; a site which analyzes your writing style (assuming you have a style) and vocabulary, and compares that to a somewhat limited database of authors. According to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6023\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}