Plug-In Editor

This will be short and sweet.

Now this was something I thought of a few months ago, and was holding it close and dear for a bit, but in all actuality I'm not getting to it anytime soon. I don't understand why someone doesn't create a universal plug-in editor. I hate it when I publish something and later discover I missed a typo or grammar error. Being an internet junkie, as many of you probably are, uncovering grammatical errors is no unicorn or shooting star. They are all over the place, all the time, on major press publications. Most definitely here as we speak. No need to include screenshots and embarrass anyone else. We all know it is true. Why therefore isn't there some type of plug-in like +AddThis which websites can then plug into their website and anyone with an account, kinda like +Wikipedia, can suggest corrections to the author. This seems highly overdue and any publisher or writer would be extremely grateful. As it now stands, for those that care to notify the writer, either you have to be connected, or you have to spend the tedious time of looking them up and figuring out which social network would be best to contact them on. Additionally, now though if done in the public domain, it can sometimes be perceived as a jab or embarrassing. Especially if it has already been seen by many people. This would be discrete for the public and fun for the participants. You could even gamify it, kinda like the real life Elevate grammar test but by getting higher points for the mistakes you catch on the websites with greater influence. This could be easily calculated by their +Klout scores. Everyone would love playing in real life the game of editing and "treasure finding," and competing with friends. Furthermore, this would show publishers and reporters who is really reading and focusing on their stuff, rather than just liking, posting, retweeting and commenting.

Adding the Life to Klout

One of the most common criticisms about Klout is that they do not incorporate one's real life influence into one's score; Klout is currently only a measure of one's social media influence. Due to this, some extremely influential people who are not very active on social media have a very low Klout score. While some of these people are so influential and known that they do not care, others find it insulting and are therefore dismissive of the new platform. While Klout is an awesome, innovative idea - creating social influence scores for individuals and not just press organizations and/or companies - they could easily generate both metrics.

Take Sergey Brin for example. Klout shows that he only has a 47 Klout while I currently have a score of 65. One of the additional reasons for this is that +Sergey Brin not only probably didn't create this Klout page (since Klout now automatically generates Klout pages for every Twitter profile), but because it is only linked to his Twitter profile (though I just noticed this link is broken and that he doesn't even have a verified Twitter account). For the most accurate Klout metrics and the highest score one must link up all their social media accounts.

Klout should have three separate scores - social, life and an aggregate of them both. To accomplish this Klout could extract one's education and work experience from LinkedIn, determine the Klout score of the company/university, multiplied by two variables - position and time. For example, continuing with Sergey Brin (though he doesn't have a LinkedIn profile either), we all know that he is one of the founders of Google, Google has a Klout score of 97. Therefore, 97 would be multiplied by one of the highest variables due to his founding position, multiplied by 16 years, To tally his educational life influence score, one would include his education at University of Maryland, which Klout indicates has an 89 Klout score times four years and some points for his bachelors degree in science, plus his brief graduate study at Stanford in computer science. Stanford has a Klout score of 96, times the few months there. All of this would then come up with some tally in between 97-89 for his life experience. This would at least be a start to problem solving the lack of life clout in Klout's metrics.