Comments on: Reading Levels of Popular Blogs

By: Slippy Lane

Slippy Lane — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:28:34 +0000

World of Slippy apparently rates a high school reading level.

Harumph.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:03:52 +0000

Only a week old, and a genius already. :-)

By: kati

kati — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:53:45 +0000

What a shock to find out my work blog (all about stationery) is Genius and my personal blog is High School. I’m in good company though!

By: neurotictim

neurotictim — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:01:20 +0000

My personal blog reads as a College (Post-Grad).

Pretty much all of the sites I visit read at Junior High or High… Interesting…

By: Isaias Torres

Isaias Torres — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:55:50 +0000

I wonder if this tester takes into account blog comments. My favorite LJ elysesewell.livejournal.com/ was given an elementary reading level, but I find that really hard to believe. She does however get a huge amount of comments from idiots that write simple sentences.

You can also find out the readability of your own documents on Word! Isn’t that exciting. You have to go to options under tools and make sure that “Show readability score” is checked under Spelling and Grammar Check. Then you run the spelling and grammar check and after you finish, a window pops up saying the readability score of your document! (I apparently always write at a 12 grade level.) This is pretty useful for educators who want to find out how easily their students will read the material.

By: Yonit

Yonit — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:08:39 +0000

You covered most of my fav already, but here are some I like to look at periodically:

Wil Wheaton’s blog: jr high
howstuffworks.com : jr high
Cuteoverload (hehe): jr high
Mugglenet.com: high school
Israel Matzav: high school
Beyond BT: high school
Aish.com high school
Science Daily: College (undergrad)
Scientific American: College (postgrad)
My facebook page: Genius!!! yay!!

I guess being a mommy hasn’t fried my brain as much as I thought since my reading level is still up there. :)

By: james

james — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:34:24 +0000

wicket, mine got college postgrad. I don’t ever write anything interesting, either, but I am adept at using commas to make my sentences really really long.

Here’s a result I enjoyed:
Littlegreenfootballs: College (undergrad)
Dailykos (High school).

take that libs!

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:08:14 +0000

My blog came up college (postgrad). It’s mostly comments on movies and books that I write just to practice writing, and it suffers from bad sentence structure and a tendency to overuse the same words in a single post. My high school graduate sister is probably the only one who reads it, and she has no problems with comprehension.

By: Axx

Axx — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:38:32 +0000

English news sites comparisons:

cnn.com : Junior High
msnbc.msn.com : Junior High
nytimes.com : Junior High
latimes.com : Junior High

news.bbc.co.uk : College (post-grad)
guardian.co.uk : High School
dailymail.co.uk : Junior High
economist.com : Genius

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:19:16 +0000

Mine is elementary. Which is exactly the way I want it. Keep it simple.