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Atom While browsing the internet, I found a fun tool via Ballastexistenz called I Write Like. The idea is that you paste some of your writing into its box and it analyses it to make a guess at which famous writer your style most resembles. No idea how accurate it is, but I put through every blog entry currently in this version of La Canta Magnifico Blog (archival and current). Here are the authors I apparently write like, in order of frequency and with the entries where that style is supposedly shown indicated. Entries forming part of the "Favourite Blogs" selection are asterisked:
Cory Doctorow (10)
Friday Fun Press Releases
December 2010 NaBloPoMo
Merry Christmas
2009 Season Review Podcast
Thursday Thoughts - Your Blog
*Spyker, Albers and the search for profits
*Winklehock Spyker and a cookery class
*As Media Collide (Part 1)
*As Media Collide (Part 2)
*2009 Season Review Podcast
H P Lovecraft (9)
FIA 2 N.Technology 0
A1GP - 1-Way Ticket?
GMM and the Whipped Cream Principle
More Things Not To Do In a Press Release
How Not To Write a Press Release
*Analysis of the 2010 Sporting Regulations
Speech Bubble Press Release 1
Speech Bubble Press Release 3
*Renault and Long-Term Driver Strategy Two Years On
James Joyce (4)
Guessing from the entry list
First Impressions of Mercedes' Partial Purchase of Brawn
Dream On...
Speech Bubble Press Release 2
David Foster Wallace (4)
Exit Kimi, Quietly
*Albers Spyker (again) and the search for a replacement driver
*Pros and Cons of Driver Hierarchical Arrangements
*Advantages Of Travelling By Rail Instead Of By F1 Car
Dan Brown (3)
Charles Ghosn and the Environment
*As Media Collide (Part 3)
*Fisi To Ferrari - An Emotional Moment
William Gibson (2)
Feelgood Friday From FIF1 and Sauber
*Racing For Ethics
William Shakespeare (2)
*Renault and long-term driver strategy
*Renault and Long-Term Driver Strategy One Year On
Stephen King (2)
*OK, Now I Believe the Rumour
*Leavetakings
JK Rowling (1)
*WThe European GP Winklehock and Wet Weather
Edgar Allan Poe (1)
*Re-Analysing The Championship Duel
me = david foster wallace. i have no idea who his is :(
It;s an interesting concept. I am amazed you have two posts like Stephen King. I can't imagine you ever wrote anything that scary. I have tried a few of my own posts and mainly get David Foster Wallace with a little Dan Brown and a couple of others thrown in. As mentioned on sidepodcast I posted a short Shakespeare quote which the site identified as Oscar Wilde and then I tried an excerpt of David Foster King which it said was like Cory Doctrow.
The sidepodcast comments start here. http://sidepodcast.com/post/daily-2nd-december-2010/comments#comment-974696
Mr C, I had no idea who David Foster Wallace was either, though apparently he doesn't write like himself...
Steven, the entries in question weren't written in a scary way, though for the latter one (Leavetakings), I remember being rather scared that Honda was going to go down with 700 employees, two good drivers and a promising car on board.