crowdsourcing
August 22nd, 2008
the folks at carnegie mellon realized that all the energy being spent by people accessing over 60 million CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) protected sites daily could be used for something productive – digitizing books. now, thanks to recaptcha the time you spend logging on to facebook and ticketmaster is also spent helping to digitize books from the internet archive and old editions of the new york times. genius
January 19th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
[...] technology means that when you’re typing in that word, you’re actually helping to digitize a book. Which is very helpful to literature scholars, by the [...]