The Faces of Mechanical Turk - Waxy.org - “I started the task at $.05, but only two people responded in the first 24 hours. (And one of those was Joshua Schachter, who I’d told about the project.) Clearly, that was too low, so I increased it to $.25, receiving only eight submissions in 48 hours. …
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http://aptstudio.com/timesemit/2008/11/14/apts-links-for-november-10th-through-november-13th/Adam O’Riordan: Why the poetry of hip-hop is tragic | Books | guardian.co.uk - “These patterns stemming from verbal expression exist across high art and low culture; antidiplosis, antithesis, stichomythia, anaphora, epistrophe, anthypophora and a whole bunch of other hard-to-remember terms can be found in the bombast and rhetoric of the album. …
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Barack Obama and The Golden Notebook
http://aptstudio.com/timesemit/2008/11/11/485/OK, so we just launched The Golden Notebook project, which will be gathering momentum in the coming weeks (we hope). I set up a Google Alert to keep abreast of links to the site, and what people think of it. (So far, so good). One thing I didn’t expect was the endorsement, reported in today’s Evening Standard, of the 44th President of the USA. …
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