According to Wikipedia, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a tool that “enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do.” It enables companies and individuals to posts tasks and set an amount they are willing to pay for the tasks completion....
Continue ReadingWashington Post column on their most recent blog controversy and the differences in process between online and print content.
Good list of some cool themes for WordPress junkies. Some inspiration for blog designers as well.
MyBlogLog is a tool that allows for social networking around blogs. Basically, bloggers and blog readers sign up for a MyBlogLog account and upload a picture, claim their blog and create a profile.
If you run a blog, you can insert the MyBlogLog widget (see right) on your site and you can see a list of your recent visitors. ...
Continue ReadingWant to know why some campaign websites are so restrictive, often taking days to approve user generated content? Check out this post on Techcrunch about a very disturbing hiccup Arrington found on the new Obama website. Yikes.
I've seen lots of hiccups like this in my time. I remember doing some political work a few years back and a volunteer complained about an auto-generated password we sent him. ...
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Barack Obama will announce his candidacy for President later today and in advance of that he launched a full version of his campaign website very early this morning.
Here are my initial thoughts:
(1) This site is all about social networking. I mean all about it. ...
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