Scott Hanselmen posted this morning about aideRSS.  I decided to run aideRSS over my blog to see what would the results would be.  Apparently I have only one "Great Post" which made me chuckle:

Apparently my test post from yesterday was "Great".  I wonder if that's an indictment on all my other posts or something internally goofy with aideRSS's calculations.  I was impressed that AideRSS correctly labeled my Vista Printer Installed - Dell All-In-One 922 Now Printing and Nant Setup for Visual Studio 2008 and .net 3.5 as having the high scores in the PostRank column.  These two posts are clearly the most trafficked when I look at site statistics.

I have to say I'm impressed with what how it works:

"...in a nutshell you enter the URL of the feed that you would like to have filtered and we do some math and checking around the web to learn about this feed, its statistics, and people’s reaction to it. We then assign PostRank™ scores to all articles in the feed and provide you with a variety of tools to sort and parse these items of interest into manageable lots for you to scan and digest at your leisure."

Scott's explanation may be more meaty:

"Well, since it can't really measure quality it infers it indirectly by creating a metric based on the number of del.icio.us bookmarks, diggs, Blogger references, Technorati references, Google BlogSearch reference, IceRocket references and a few others."

As I'm blogging more I intend to check in on AideRSS every so often as I think this is just another way to see which posts are worthwhile and which aren't.  However, I will say that it briefly crossed my mind to retire from blogging seeing as how 100% of my posts are "Good", easily beating two of my favorite bloggers Scott Hanselman (61%) and Jeff Atwood (75%).