[okfn-labs] Crowdcrafting + reference lists = crowdsource lists of stuff?

[Tom Morris]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Daniel Lombraña González <
teleyinex at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> PS: If you have time, read this blog post about Mechanical Turk from Jeff
> Atwood
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/is-amazons-mechanical-turk-a-failure.html
>

That's 6 years old!  Theoretical discussions of compensation models aside,
I suspect Jeff might have changed his opinion as to whether MTurk is a
failure since then.  If it is a failure, it's one spawned a bunch of
imitators ("the idea has been successful enough that at least 50 other
companies are said to be developing similar online task marketplaces." -
FastCompany[1]), conferences dedicated to it, as well a whole raft of
startups built on its services.

Different compensation models work for different tasks, groups, and goals.

Tom

1
http://www.fastcompany.com/1713300/how-amazon-mechanical-turk-fails-low-income-workers-and-how-it-can-succeed
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