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The Camp Gyno. Three - The Pony. Film: Perfect short film NOAH captures the romantic perils of being a teenager online. If you spent as much of your youth reading too much into MSN statuses and deciding what your Hotmail username represented you as a person (or just made you look that bit more mysterious) then this film is for you. Strangely, I actually don’t think this short film will appeal to anyone who wasn’t a teenager in the age of social media as the angst, panic and sheer helplessness just won’t be as palpable. Noah is a 17 minute long short film created by Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg for the Toronto International Film Festival. Filmed exclusively from the point of view of a teenage boy online, we follow him as his real social life crumbles as a result of reading too much into social media. One of the most extraordinary things about the film is how Noah simultaneously texts on his iPhone, chats on Facebook, Skypes his girlfriend and watches YouPorn. This is the dark truth of multitasking in the modern age, and it completely gives me the creeps.
Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg: NOAH. Teenagers In Heat (video) - Holy Ghost! Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome. Can You Actually Earn Reasonable Money from Mechanical Turk? Over the last month, tons of readers have written to me asking me about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. Can you actually earn reasonable money with it, or is it a scam? What is it? For those unaware, Mechanical Turk is a service from Amazon where you can complete simple tasks in exchange for a tiny payment. For example, you might look at an image and describe it in ten words for $0.08. Well, can you? 8:46 AM – Signed up for Mechanical Turk. And here’s the outcome of that adventure. Some tips Here are several things I learned that can help someone interested in Mechanical Turk earn more for their time. First, it pays to be able to write comprehensible stuff quickly.
Second, the extremely low-cost Turk tasks aren’t worth it. Third, most of the tasks fit well into short breaks. Fourth, tasks that require “tests” seem to pay off. Another big tip: if you do take on a task in the lower price range, look at it first. Finally, be patient. Is it worthwhile? How Mechanical Turk is Broken.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is important because in a perfect world, it could be the ultimate hub for the “human cloud” – an amorphous, pan-national, always-on pool of labor usable by corporations and individuals for tasks of any scale. It could provide ready employment for part-time workers in in any country on earth. It could be the ultimate in frictionless, free markets for labor, if you’re into that sort of thing. Recently, I told you how a fairly simple test of the abilities of Mechanical Turk revealed that the service is failing to deliver on its core promise – providing developers and businesses with access to a pool of humans who can perform tasks better than machines.
Panos Ipeirotis, a computer scientist who somehow finds himself at the Stern School of Business of New York University, explains on his blog how Mechanical Turk arrived at this sorry state of affairs. For The Win » Download for Free.