3 month ago
Andy Baio : Illustrated book of cat stories created with Mechanical Turk - experiment idea: can random turkers create a compelling narrative? [via]
Rod Begbie : Amazing but True Cat Stories - The best use of Mechanical Turk so far: Paying people pennies to draw cats and supply cat stories. [via] #
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6 month ago
Simon Willison : Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com - Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com. Launched this morning at BarCamp London by Matthew Somerville—TheyWorkForYou now has video from BBC Parliament but they need your help matching it exactly to their transcripts from Hansard. Neat example of
Rod Begbie : Video speech matching (TheyWorkForYou.com) - TheyWorkForYou has a crowdsourcing project matching the Hansard transcripts of parliamentary debates to BBC video. It's pretty easy work if you keep going through one debate (and you get to watch a little bit of politics in action). Fancy taking a half [via] #
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7 month ago
nelson : Dash GPS - GPS that shares your speed data with other users, building a bottom up understanding of traffic flow
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing [via]
nelson : 10,000 cents - Mechanical Turk art project to recreate a $100 bill
Rod Begbie : Ten Thousand Cents - Mechanical Turk project where users were paid $0.01 to draw a section of the $100 bill. [via] #
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9 month ago
joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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13 month ago
WillPate : ConceptShare T-Shirt Design Challenge - Design our company t-shirts! Get a free one just for submitting, or an iPod Touch if we love yours the most :)
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19 month ago
Andy Baio : White Glove Tracking - using crowdsourcing to spot Michael Jackson's white glove for a video visualization [via]
joshua : White Glove Tracking - yet another cute crowdsourcing art project
fastclemmy : White Glove Tracking | We're Done - Thanks! - White Glove Tracking | We're Done - Thanks! by fastclemmy On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125
factoryjoe : White Glove Tracking | We're Done - Thanks! - On May 4th, 2007, we asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located. wgt_data_v1.txt
Milo Vermeulen : White Glove Tracking - isolating Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean - White Glove Tracking - isolating Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean - and then vizualizing the data in fun ways! [via]
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29 month ago
plasticbag : Cambrian House is the LazyWeb reborn with a face-lift and an eye firmly set on intergalatic stardom - Like the LazyWeb I think it's a bit of a creepy and slightly self-serving idea, and I'm not convinced it'll work, but I love the design of the pages. Does that make me shallow?
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30 month ago
cameron : Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing - Using participatory media to do things that used to cost money.
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