Recent Articles about Social

• Feb. 20, 2011 Soundsourcing: The Sound of the Crowd An experiment in which Mechanical Turkers generated sound effects on demand.
• Feb. 2, 2011 CrowdForge: Crowdsourcing Complex Tasks A MapReduce approach to Human Computation. I wrote a Django app for that.
• Oct. 25, 2010 The Best Question Answering Sites A fun self-referential experiment in which I asked (via question answering sites) what the best question answering site is.
• Feb. 6, 2010 Visualizing MTurk Requesters A quick stab at scraping Mechanical Turk for statistics into a Google Spreadsheet, and then using Google's Visualization APIs to present that data in a meaningful way.
• Jan. 16, 2010 Crowdsourcing Code A brief Mechanical Turk survey to determine whether or not turkers might be willing to write code.
• Jan. 14, 2010 Crowdsourcing Articles with Mechanical Turk At CMU we conducted user research with real life Mechanical Turk users. We also tried to get them to collaboratively write articles using etherpad.
• July 22, 2009 Extending Google Wave Terminology A chronicle of some emergent lingo from the Google Wave service.