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2011: the year the future became history?
December 24, 2011… almost 100,000 volunteers have donated over 280,000 minutes of time and completed nearly 6 million tasks. With their help (yes, and some assistance from a lot of moles) we were a finalist in the DISH (Digital Strategies for Heritage) and Mindtrek Launchpad awards.
Last, and certainly least, 2011 was the year that the (until recently) rather geeky management team at Microtask finally won serious gangsta street cred, by releasing our very own (crowdsourced) animated rap song. We are …
Games at the museum: Mia Ridge interview
October 12, 2011… games because they’re a great way to engage audiences. With crowdsourcing, the trick is finding tasks that give you the data you need, while matching the skills and abilities of your audience. Csíkszentmihályi’s concept of flow and the idea of the magic circle are both really useful when thinking about crowdsourced game design in intimidating places like museums. In my research, I found invoking the magic circle and providing simple tasks with immediate feedback often help …
BrooklynMuseum, crowd, crowdsourcing, GalaxyZoo, game design, History, microwork, Museum, Museum Resources, Powerhouse Museum | 2 CommentsMOG: the day the music gamified
October 6, 2011… to MOG and get a full free “tank” of music. As you listen the tank empties. To refuel, you do tasks like “making friend referrals, creating and sharing playlists and exploring MOG”. The more you engage/play with MOG, the more music you get. MOG CEO David Hyman claims that the tank’s “sophisticated game mechanics” should mean that users never have to pay for music.
Master motivators
So, will people who won’t spend $5 per month on music be prepared to spend time …
From fiction to fact: interview with Esa Nikkilä
September 29, 2011… This time, we’ve abolished the 140 character limit and instead started setting writers specific tasks to guide the plot in the “right” direction. We’ve also included game and rating elements to motivate people. From Reality to Another proved you can crowdsource a novel. Pirunmeri is about showing how good a crowdsourced novel can be.
Are there any other creative crowdsourcing projects you really admire (especially Finnish ones)?
Nowadays, there are loads of good examples of …
Crimes against content: is crowdsourcing to hamsters a bridge too far?
August 18, 2011… have been involved in the creation of sentences like “Microtask game using a hamster to sub-tasks: to help players build hamster bridge”. Which is actually entertainingly ironic: articles about Microtask’s system of distributed work are themselves being systematically disassembled by distributed workers. It’s like something out of a Cory Doctorow novel.
I guess the goal of this heinous content-crime is to produce bogus “original” material that search engines think is …
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