by Michael Hiles | |

Ok, so aside from Google+, the latest excitement in the social media world is Klout. Klout has made an effort to promote the idea that people with a higher "Klout Score" somehow or another have more… well… clout on the internet.

Here’s the big problem with that entire idea.

Klout’s proprietary algorithm is at best, incomplete, and at the worst, self serving. Not that my own Klout score is without some level of merit. I’m probably in the 90th percentile of...