Forum: mTurk & Amazon in the the Media

"One of the things that continually amazes me is how people can line up all the facts, actually get them right, and then leap to entirely the...

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/the-unregulated-work-of-mechanical-turk/?partner=rss&emc=rss Talk about unoriginal - I think one...

http://wesa.fm/2013/02/18/cmu-professor-online-crowd-workers-need-protections-organization Ultimately, he said a national policy governing crowd...

"Mechanical Turk is a tiny niche of the global labor market, but it's a niche worth watching as it's being used by some big players, including the...

http://cpx.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/01/31/2167702612469015.full.pdf yea yea, of course, because they are on the internet, higher % of...

Get ready to be paid in Amazon coins!:2cents: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/amazon-launch-virtual-currency

CROWDSOURCING might be big business now but it has never been fair. The pay is terrible, there is zero regulation and no recourse for workers if...

CrowdSource's CEO Stephanie Leffler made St. Louis' most influential people list 2013 in St. Louis's ALIVE Magazine. ...

If you have not realized yet, psychologists have been using Mturk for psych experiments. ...

CrowdSource has posted three job openings on LinkedIn. http://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdsource/careers?trk=top_nav_careers

http://www.crowdsourcing.org/editorial/the-lawsuit-that-could-help-undo-or-cement-crowdsourcing-in-the-us/22968 "The complaint, which was...

Mturk has added a way to reverse a rejection to the MTurk GUI. The steps to reverse rejections are given on the Mturk blog. ...

Here's some political science academics talking about us: ...

It has been a month now that Mturk has changed the GUI interface and made the masters qual the default. This blog explains what it means to us...

Hello, all. My name's Anton, I write for the site crowdsourcing.org. I'd like to write an article about crowdsourced labor and would love to speak...

Hey folks-- I have recently seen a video of a conference talk where the researcher described her use of mTurk and the turkers. Am I allowed to...

"Mechanical Turk is an interesting experiment for Amazon. It is not clear how important is the project for the rest of the company and how much Jeff...

Amazon is planning to hire an extra 50,000 workers for the warehouses this season. If you happen to live close to one you may want to apply. ...

Pakgamers Is Now DEAD! A Win For Requesters! Good guys = 1 Scammers = 0

This article was posted on a blog for the Computation and Cognition Lab for New York University. I take a lot of surveys on MTurk and this article...