Any kind of clout measuring will lead to massive gaming. Technorati attempted to measure the clout of blogs. Was gamed. (Lot of probloggers asking their read

Any kind of clout measuring will lead to massive gaming. Technorati attempted to measure the clout of blogs. Was gamed. (Lot of probloggers asking their readers to add them to their technorati account.) Twitter shows how many people you follow and how many follow you back. It is gamed. Digg gives out clout measurement - how many % of your submissions reach the front page. It is gamed. Clout measurement leads to gaming.