Statistical analyzer that takes a sample of your (or anyone’s) writing and claims to match it based on similarity to a known author: I Write Like.
I pasted an excerpt from an email I had written a while back, and I got the result “I write like Cory Doctorow”. Really? My emails read like Doctorow? This sounded too good to be true, so I dug up my recipe for mushroom-peanut lasagna and pasted that in, and I got the result “I write like Mario Puzo”!
I swear this thing was written by a wise guy.
Haha I tried it and got Dan Brown and William Gibson. Really? William Gibson? Lies, I tell you.
Comment by onamatopoeia — July 18, 2010 @ 5:36 PM