Where is a Mechanical Turk review?

13 Nov, 2005

Where is a Mechanical Turk review?

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Planet Kiberpipa| Planet LiveCD| Rant

So by now we all fell in love with idea of Amazon Mechanical Turk. It is really simple: let humans do what machines can not and stop spending money on technology that won’t be there for another decade or four.

My question to blogosphere is: why is everyone just repeating their PR and stating some of opinions on it (via Technorati) and why no one actually reviews their site? Where is a first-hand write-up of whole user experience?

I really hope that I just can’t find the write-up because of the noise of PR copycats and someone will point it out and make a fool me.

3 Responses to "Where is a Mechanical Turk review?"

1 | billw00d

November 14th, 2005 at 1:46 am

Here are two blogs that talk about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk:

2 | billw00d

November 14th, 2005 at 1:47 am

Sorry for the Double Post.
http://mturkey.blogspot.com/
http://mechanical-turk.blogspot.com/

3 | Michael Turk

May 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm

If you look closer, there is quite some criticism of former MT “workers” on several blogs. Some of that was written by me. Besides “Crowdsourcing” in the MT fashion is the most disgusting evil breed of e-capitalism, MT is implemented in an aweful way. Just try it yourself – it’s easy enough. Go and do expert work for 20 cents a week and see how much you’re in love with the idea then, feel how lovely it is when you kill jobs of translators and so on, just to kill your boredom.

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Marko Prlji?: Jure, sure, I know, I'm not complaining nor saying anything about this one. I wouldn't be there if I had something against that. What I'm saying is ju
Jure Cuhalev: Marko, RT WebCamp had clear "official language" + all the PR materials were only in Slovenian.

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Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).

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