"(CNN) -- Are you more of a Margaret Atwood? Dan Brown? Or Leo Tolstoy?
For all the curious writers, bloggers, Facebook wall scribblers and texters out there, a new site called "I Write Like" claims to determine the famous author that your writing most resembles.
Launched a few days ago, the site, created by 27-year-old Russian software developer Dmitry Chestnykh, has already gone viral.
The site works like this: Users paste a short writing sample in a box and click the "analyze" button. The site examines word choice and writing style to select the author that the submission mirrors.
As of Sunday, "I Write Like" reported the site had analyzed about 1.5 million pieces of text…"
Cory Doctorow (pronounced /ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcityeconomics.
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