Arpi Mardirossian

Here is a great video by OK Go for Skyscrapers that features a sultry montage of dance moves through a series of colorful urban backdrops. The clip was directed and produced by Grammy Award-winning choreographer and director Trish Sie.

I love Gold Bug!

I recently attended CrowdConf 2010, a conference on crowdsourcing, in San Francisco, CA. It was a very well organized and informative event. Some of the highlights of the day for me were (in order of appearance):

Leila Chirayath Janah (Samasource): connecting people living in poverty with microwork

Martijn Lampert (Motivaction): managing a crowd of Dutch consumers for panel research

John Horton (Harvard): Algorithmic Wage Negotiations: Applications to Paid Crowdsourcing

Dana Chandler (MIT) and Adam Kapelner (U Penn): Preventing Satisficing in Online Surveys: A ‘Kapcha’ to Ensure Higher Quality Data

David Alan Grier: When Computers Were Human

Patrick Meier (Ushahidi): Crowdsourcing Crisis Information: The Future of Humanitarian Response