On 10/2/07, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/2/07, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing..... Someone should > > tell the church ;) > > Also sounds like an interesting business idea. Farm out captchas to > > blogs, and pay people for using the captcha.... > > > > Seth Godin actually already proposed this idea - it's open for anyone to > try!: > > http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/12/commercializing.html
Great minds think alike (or think the same thing a year later). One issue with his idea is he doesn't use the results for anything useful... (Admittedly if someone made me translate immigration records to reply to a blog I probably wouldn't do it much....) > > Another thing to look into is Amazon's Mechanical Turk: > Yes, this is a specialized version of the turk. As I understand it now, genealogical indexing is done by Volunteer Turks.... -matt _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
