The redesign of the Mechanical Olympics website is nearly finished and the Turkers are working on new videos for the 2010 Games! If you want to participate, log on to mturk.com and accept a HIT from Mechanical Olympics. All you need is an Amazon account. For a sneak preview, you can watch my growing play [...]
On Wednesday, November 11th, I will be talking about the Mechanical Olympics on a panel titled “Crowdsourced Labor: Digital Democracy or Centralized Sweatshop?” with Jeff Crouse and Beka Economopoulos at The Change You Want to See Gallery. This event is an installment of the monthly Upgrade NY! series on open source as it relates to [...]
I always knew I was weird…MechanicalOlympics.org has been selected as an Official Honoree in the Weird category of the 13th Annual Webby Awards. The Webby Awards is the Internet’s most respected symbol of success. The 13th Annual Webby Awards received over 9,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. Webby Awards are [...]