---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:11 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Turkopticon helps the people in the 'crowd' of crowdsourcing watch out for each other—because nobody else seems to be. To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]

Thanks to Geert Lovink, for letting me be aware of these very intereting projects. Comrades are developing an online platform and digita tools that are helping Amazon Maniacal-Turk's digitally enlaved workers to get strength. This is first one, the Turkopticon: http://turkopticon.ucsd.edu/ Turkopticon helps the people in the 'crowd' of crowdsourcing watch out for each other—because nobody else seems to be. Almost half of the Mechanical Turk workers who wrote their Bill of Rights demanded protection from employers who take their work without paying.Turkopticon lets you REPORT and AVOID shady employers. snoogiebug from turkernation says, "if you do not have this please get it!!!! it does work and is worth it !!" Turkopticon Firefox Turkopticon Chrome How Turkopticon works: Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done. As you browse HITs, Turkopticon places a button next to each requester and highlights requesters for whom there are reviews from other workers. Bad reviews let you avoid shady employers and good reviews help you find fair ones. You can view reports made against requesters with a quick click. As you review HITs you've completed, are there HITs you weren't fairly paid for? Turkopticon adds a button that lets you review requesters from your "Status Detail" page. Other Turking resources: Turker Nation MTurk Forum CloudMeBaby Forum mTurk Grind forum mTurk List MTurk wiki on the MTurk subreddit Hide requesters script: for Greasemonkey; for Google Chrome List of useful Turking scripts and add-ons from the HITsWorthTurkingFor subreddit Turking tips from the MTurk subreddit Notes for requesters: "Low cost, high quality" is a myth; you must pay for quality And this is the related Dynamo project DYNAMO, http://www.wearedynamo.org/ which ressonates a lot with the ideas we have been developing with SaysUs. Both Frank Kashner and comrades from Dynamo will be in New York, as far as I understood, at the Digital Labour: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES event (http://digitallabor.org/). I hope these two projects will find a way to build a synergic collaboration. Just wanted to share with the rest of you. Orsan _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/