[Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

[m h]

On 10/2/07, Jesse Stay <jesse at thestays.org> wrote:
> On 10/2/07, m h <sesquile at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing..... Someone should
> > tell the church ;)
> > Also sounds like an interesting business idea.  Farm out captchas to
> > blogs, and pay people for using the captcha....
> >
>
> Seth Godin actually already proposed this idea - it's open for anyone to
> try!:
>
> http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/12/commercializing.html

Great minds think alike (or think the same thing a year later).  One
issue with his idea is he doesn't use the results for anything
useful... (Admittedly if someone made me translate immigration records
to reply to a blog I probably wouldn't do it much....)

>
> Another thing to look into is Amazon's Mechanical Turk:
>

Yes, this is a specialized version of the turk.  As I understand it
now, genealogical indexing is done by Volunteer Turks....

-matt