For the past few months, the Sea-Fever Code Monkeys have been hard at work on a top secret project in a hermetically sealed computer lab at Sea-Fever HQ. More complex than the Google Search Algorithm, the formula for Coke and the Secret Recipe for KFC combined, they have been using the latest technology to figure out who is the smartest maritime blogger in the world.
Well, Yahoo is not the only Internet property experiencing “headwinds.” The Sea-Fever blog’s lack of ads or any other virtual or real revenue model has forced us to “tack” this project and chart a new course using the most powerful web 2.0 (aka free) tools available to finish this important work.
After an exhaustively Googling the Internets, we discovered an impressive website that answered the question, “Who’s the smartest maritime blogger of them all?” Or at least, “What level of education is required to understand your blog?”
We put dozens of blogs through the sophisticated process of The Blog Readability Test and you might be surprised by the results. We were.
A Shipwright in Training
Big Oceans Tiny Boat
frogma
Sailing Anarchy
ShipTalk
Thad’s Daily Log
1000 Days at Sea, The Mars Ocean Odyssey
Live Sail Die
Messing About In Boats
Proper Course
Roz Savage
Tugboat Life
Tugster
The Beagle Project
Cephalopodcast
Cruise Ship Law Blog
Marine Buzz
Marine Firefighting Newsletter
Fred Fry’s Maritime Monday
Messing About In Ships
My Life at Sea
Navagear
Never Sea Land
Panbo
The Ship of the Day
The Stranded Mariner
Tim’s Times
Cargo Law
Eagle Speak
gCaptain
Great Lakes Maritime Industry Issues
Kiwi at Sea
The Mariner’s (Chief Engineer’s) blog
Robin Storm
SailScape
Seaway Channel
Yankee Sailor
At Sea with Doug Newman
The Bitter End Blog
IMC Broker’s Blog
The Avid Cruiser
The Cure for Anything is Saltwater
Eurodam News
Holland & Knight
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Maritime Accident Casebook
Maritime Compass
Maritime Matters
MaritimeTerrorism.com
The Pilot Boat
Notes to Maritime Bloggers:
- Please feel free to proudly display the appropriate badge on your blog.
- If you run the program yourself on your blog and come up with a higher level, it’s probably because your last few posts were more intelligent than most of what you’ve written in the past. Who knows, maybe you’re even getting smarter.
- If your score comes in lower, don’t worry, we’ll probably never do this again so you won’t be outed.
- I’m glad the MaritimeTerrorism.com guys are really smart.
- Much like the Nigerian diplomat’s widow with $400 million to “park” in your savings account, the Internets aren’t always what they appear to be. It’s actually much better to be less smart because more people can read your blog. Why limit your audience with intelligence?
- If you have any questions or complaints, they are probably best addressed directly with The Blog Readability Test honchos.
- At least you got a free link out of this.
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Sea-Fever blog 
Hi,
good blog. I always find your blogs very interesting.Thanks for sharing it
Like your blog. Very informative..keep up!
Sorry folks,
Forgot to give the link. Here it goes: sailorbits
Sorry folks,
Forgot to give the link. Here it goes:
The world has seen quite a few Community sites. But its only a few really cared about Niche Community like Seafarers community. So, here we are…….take a pick at sailorbits.com a Mariners’ community with some added flavour of Maritime Directory, Games Arcade, Jokes, Recipe, Question-Answers, Gadgets & many more to set SailOrbits a step above of her contemporary websites
hi,
well well well, i think your blog is a “WISH WELL” i just wished to be at higher ranking and then tested at the
http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
and found to be at genius level.
i think i must start visiting your blog first and then others….
Nandkishore gitte
Life At sea
http://mylifeatsea.blogspot.com
Exellent,
Well i feel this rating is accurate, to be frank i am happy where i am been rated and that also means that i have lot of chance to improve my writing and i need to focus a lot.
also this rating will help to observe the upper level blogs keenly.
thanks dear for bringing it on the blog.
Nandkishore gitte
http://mylifeatsea.blogspot.com
Doug;
Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately the methodology has to remain top secret but you can rest assured that it has been vetted by the Coney Island ship registry certified according to ISO 9 standards.
Congratulations on graduating to genius level. I’m sure that you will soon experience the immense benefits that come with attaining this lofty position. ;-)
Interesting… Today my site comes up as ‘genius’!
I would be more convinced if there was something about the methodology about the ‘test’ though…
Anyhow, thanks for the link!
Doug
oh, btw, just to pique people’s interest in the link on my other comment – Flip is one of the most peculiar manmade floating objects I’ve ever seen.
Postgrad reading level for the IMC blog??? Perhaps we’ll need to use more picturesand less text ;-)
As always, truly honoured to be mentioned in your list.
Well, having titled my most recent post See Flip Flip” I’m not in much of a position to object!
:D
Awsome! I can’t believe I rated college level! Even though I was just a lowly administrative hack in my Coast Guard days.
I’m going to have to come back and dig through this great list of maritime blogs…as soon as I get over this cold and reorganize myself after my sailor’s latest whirlwind visit.
This being an election year, I demand a recount. I just ran my URL through the tool and it says I’m at the postgrad level.
Must be one of my better days :)
John,
The Code Monkeys insisted on leaving Sea-Fever out in order to maintain the integrity of the research. I just work here.
Sorry about the picture, I was looking for one in color but couldn’t find.
Displaying the badge is clearly optional. Hey at least you’re College level.
Know how much you like links…
Good Heavens! Now I have to worry about the education LEVEL of blogs that I read? Is nothing sacrad? LoL!
I haven’t checked pout my fellow ‘blogees’ but, of course, the rating is based on the average language capabilities of a 15 year old American, whose use of maritime terminology is likely to be limited but it does raise the important matter of cmmunications and training and one of my pet ‘peeves’ – the almost obscurantist language used in much maritime language.
A for instance “An atmosphere containing less than 21 per cent by volume of oxygen is not capable of sustaining life”. What it means of course is that if you try and breath air with less than 21 per cent oxygen, you’ll die”.
Apparently there is a strong school of thought that seafarer should not be told directly of the potential results of not following correct procedures. No wonder they’re dying on a depressingly frequent basis..
“That’s actually my co-host” …really? BTW I don’t see Sea-Fever listed in the post!? And what about your advice to “proudly display the appropriate badge on your blog.” ???
Bob, Mary: I know your both professional writers and all but you’re ruining the curve for the rest of us ;)
Kelly; When are your articles showing up on gCaptain? I need a ringer!
Richard; must have been all that time at starbucks rubbing elbows with the literati elite… on my dime!
SMILE
That’s actually my co-host for Messing About In Ships podcast (http://messingaboutinships.com), John Konrad.
Peter,
I’m not sure that you got permission to use my likeness in that photo.
There you go again smarty pants, I can’t even understand the comments that you make to my blog! ;-)
Keep up the great work!
The Blog Readability algorithm displays the high level of acuity and perspicacity appropriate for the task. ; )
…and thanks for the great list of blogs.