Archive for September, 2007

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Are you a man or a woman?

24 Sep 2007

Confused? Just take something you’ve written - longer than 500 words preferable - and bung in in this.

It’s based on an algorithm developed by some Israeli scientists working from the assumption that men tend to identify, determine or quantify things whereas women tend to talk about relationships between them. It analyses how frequently an author uses words that are more ‘male’ or ‘female’ and gives an overall weighted score. Thus it turns out ‘with’, ‘if’ and ‘not’ are the girliest words while ‘around’, ‘what’ and ‘more’ are decidedly blokey. Down the lower end of the scale it tends to get a bit sillier, for instance ‘the’ is masculine and ‘and’ is feminine.

I ran a few of my own posts through and it turns out I am  a man, most of the time.

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Democratic triumph

15 Sep 2007

The democratising brilliance of Web 2.0 is that it has allowed one billion global citizens to post “OMG, me too!”, “LOL” and “This is so fucking gay” next to every single item published on the web, 24 hours a day, 100,000 times a minute.

Can anyone doubt that if we had not developed this ability, just in time, the terrorists would already have won?