22/11/08

Apt’s links for November 18th through November 21st

• The Faces of Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org - “I started the task at $.05, but only two people responded in the first 24 hours. (And one of those was Joshua Schachter, who I’d told about the project.) Clearly, that was too low, so I increased it to $.25, receiving only eight submissions in 48 hours. (For reference, all 500 of my Girl Talk tasks were done in about an hour.) Increasing it to $.50 got me 20 more submissions in about 48 hours, after which it started to drop off quickly. I wasn’t about to give dollar bills to random people for their photos, so I ended the experiment there. People aren’t willing to give up their anonymity for cheap.”
• Lorem 2: An all-around better Lorem experience. -

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.

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