Tag Archives: writing

An Unquiet Mind of A Social Geek

Take a look at these numbers:

This is my 267th post.
There are 2962 authen­tic com­ments on this blog.
My posts have 203 tags in 39 cat­e­gories.
Total views crossed 100K quite a while back.

These num­bers usu­ally don’t mean much to me. But I always use a trick while climb­ing a moun­tain. When I am exhausted and feel like I can’t go

Writing for MakeUseOf.com

A lot of things have been hap­pen­ing at An Unquiet Mind. A jour­nal­ist quoted me in the Hyder­abad edi­tion of The Hindu. AUM is now on Twit­ter here and you can see my tweets in the side­bar.
I have been cho­sen to con­tribute to MakeUseOf.com on a trial basis. I have loved MUO since a long

Classifying a Blog’s Writing Style

How much can Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence learn from your writ­ing? Your gen­der? Your MBTI per­son­al­ity type? Can some­one find out such things about you from your writ­ing?
uClas­sify is a free text clas­si­fier web ser­vice, using which you can develop your own text clas­si­fiers. Sev­eral have been devel­oped already, the most pop­u­lar being Gen­der­An­a­lyzer and Typealyzer.
Gen­der Ana­lyzer
Gen­der­An­a­lyzer

Some Useful Reading and Writing Tools

In The Writ­ing Meme, I had men­tioned about using the right tools. Here are a few tools I’ve recently found.
Improve Read­abil­ity
Read­abil­ity is a book­marklet you can add to your browser tool­bar to make web pages easy to read. For exam­ple, here is Thomas Fried­man, with all the clut­ter of the NYTimes site:

Here is the same

The Writing Meme

Nita has kindly tagged me for list­ing strengths of a writer that I aspire to have. I read a few excel­lent writ­ers who’ve con­tributed to this before, like Sub­ur­ban Life, The Indi­vid­ual Voice, Joe Felso, Mari­aCristina, and of course, Ram­bodoc. I liked MariaCristina’s way of list­ing each strength along with an exam­ple. All these writ­ers