Crowdsourced Corrections and Fact Checking for Social Media Authors

GooseGrade is an interesting new service that is launching tomorrow that puts the power of editing in the hands of the audience. These corrections can be anything from spelling errors (yeah, i’m installing it for that), to more importantly fact checking even. As readers correct things on your blog your “goose grade” score goes down, until you start accepting and implementing suggested changes, and your score goes back up. A very interesting aspect of the service is how readers also get scored on their corrections so there is a quality score that shows you how much a person is generally right, which is of course critical in establishing the validity and reputation of people who are suggesting changes. Watch the video, it’s pretty interesting:

Anyway, great idea for a service, I can totally see a lot of bloggers who want to engage with their readers on this kind of thing doing this, I just don’t see some of the more polarizing bloggers (who really need fact checking installing it). Hopefully the service will have a central directory where people can submit errors for blogs even if they don’t have the tool installed might then serve as a clearing house for how factual or erroneous many blogs are.