I see that according to Chemical Blogspace, my Gunning-Fog index has gone up a notch- from Al Gore to Thomas Pynchon. Oh, good gawd. Now I have to worry about that as well…?
Forty thousand years ago all you had to worry about was a sabre tooth tiger dropping out of a tree on you, or those nasty Neanderthals up the river raiding your camp, killing your women and raping the men. Today we have secretive organizations applying these odd metrics from the dark recesses of the blogosphere. Who are these people? And, what do they want?
Actually, what they are doing is quite interesting. It provides good feedback for bloggers. Once we wipe away the tears we can improve our “product”.
All this talk coming from a guy who writes under a pseudonym \;-)

These people is really just me: a postdoc in chemoinformatics, who in the past 12 months worked in the group of Christoph Steinbeck, working on computer aided structures elucidation from MS and NMR data.
I hope to add some more statistics to worry about, like your ‘Chemistry Specificity Ratio’ (the #inchi’s / #urls), with qualifications ranging from ‘biologist’ via ‘organic chemist’ up to ‘chemoinformatician’ 🙂