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August 02, 2009

Mechanical Turk & Crowdsourcing in the News

Despite its arcane name, Mechanical Turk and the term "Crowdsourcing" seem to be heating up in the popular press. I'd bet that the notion is still years away from ubiquitous familiarity, but there certainly has been a lot of attention recently. A couple of recent articles:


SacBee:
"Mechanical Turk lets you make a few bucks online"

NY Times
"The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)"

Posted by Ben Rigby on August 02, 2009 at 10:08 PM in Crowdsourcing |

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