http://netvouz.com/fjordaan/tag/turk?feed=rss fjordaan's bookmarks tagged "turk" on Netvouz http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-people-participate-on-mechanical.html This questions comes up often when I describe the tasks that Turkers complete on Mechanical Turk. Therefore, I decided to run a set of studies that will aim to answer this question. Instead of trying to impose my own interpretation, I will let the Turkers speak for themselves. fjordaan Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:39:32 GMT http://adactio.com/journal/1120/ fjordaan Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:06:36 GMT http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070427/solving-captchas-for-cash/ I had a really interesting conversation with a guy out of Romania this morning regarding a team of CAPTCHA solvers that he has set up. The basic premise is that he has 5 guys set up to solve CAPTCHAs like Yahoo, MySpace, and Hotmail. He does this for clients all over the world. fjordaan Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:46:33 GMT