Brynn Marie Evans

Here is another research look at why Turkers participate: “They are motivated by fun and by fast cash.” Corroborates Panos’ findings in his MT demographics blog post.

This is an awesome visualization: it breaks down the demographics of Clinton and Obama voters by state, showing who had stronger support for each candidate.

This is a terrible cover-up for something. I do not trust people who are willing to “lie” whether blatantly or through obscurity. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Ffirstread.msnbc.msn.com%2Farchive%2F2008%2F09%2F01%2F1318541.aspx

Good report of the Information Retrieval Workshop at JCDL’08.

Here was a blog post from earlier in August on nefarious activities being outsourced to Mechanical Turk. Interesting commentary.

“When you know the net you can quickly get to the information or resources you need in your local community.

So, the statements below about John McCain’s vetting process for his VP candidate are puzzling. Did they not know how to scroll through the network via key access nodes [a.k.a. network weavers] or did they just not do it?” Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.networkweaving.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2Fknow-net.html

This is the famous Harlow monkey love study. Infants seek contact comfort with cloth mothers over wire mothers. Without motherly support and comfort, infants display psychosomatic problems, suggesting that getting “love” (not just food) is important for child development. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fpsychclassics.yorku.ca%2FHarlow%2Flove.htm

Projections for the 2008 US presidential election.

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2008%2F09%2F07%2Fmagazine%2F07awareness-t.html%3F_r%3D4%26oref%3Dslogin%26pagewanted%3Dall%26oref%3Dslogin%26oref%3Dslogin%26oref%3Dslogin