The editors formerly known as the audience

Goosegrade is a new service that allows blog readers to suggest edits to blogs. Bloggers that don’t have editors (they don’t) can now trust on the crowd to do that job. “As a blogger, I was used to receiving e-mails from conscientious readers saying it’s ‘its’ not ‘it’s’,” explains John Brooks Pounders (c0-founder).  “The idea sort of grew from there.” 

It seems the things that need incentives are all covered: “All pages begin with a gooseGrade of 100 – a perfect score.  Each time a reader suggests a correction, the writer’s gooseGrade is lowered.  When the writer takes action – that is, when they choose to either accept or decline the reader’s suggestion, the writer’s grade is restored,” Pounders explains.  “gooseGraders – that is, readers who suggest corrections, are also awarded a gooseGrade, based on the percentage of times writers choose to accept or decline their suggestions, which discourages gratuitous correcting,”. Another promising entrant in the crowdsourcing scene!