#TAM2012 Skeptic Crowdsourcing Workshop links

The Amazing Meeting 2012 is underway as I type this. Yesterday I led a workshop called The Future of Skepticism Online: Crowd-sourced Activism. I talked about many of the topics you’ve seen here on this blog, such as Web of Trust, Wikipedia and so on.

Slides and video from that workshop will be posted sometime soon, but for folks who were attending, here are all the links that were mentioned during the workshop.

Introduction

• Galaxy Zoo lets regular people help astronomers
• Whale.fm is a similar project for biology
• Kickstarter is one of several crowdfunding sites
• Amazon Mechanical Turk lets you pay for microwork

Complaining & Rating

• Web of Trust is a major place for skeptics to make a difference
• (There are several articles about Web of Trust here on this blog)
• Amazon Reviews can be a skeptic/believer battleground

Location Services

• Foursquare is a smartphone “game” of locations
• Yelp is a review/recommendation site
• Citysearch is another review/recommendation site
• Google+ Places is yet another review/recommendation site

Curation, Q&A

• What’s the Harm? is my curation project
• SkeptTV curates videos
• Skeptics StackExchange curates answers to skeptic questions
• Quora skeptics topic is another Q&A destination
• WebCite allows you to capture web pages
• FreezePage also lets you capture a web page

Captioning, Transcription & Translation

• Skeptoid Brian Dunning posts his scripts
• MonsterTalk crowd-funds paid transcriptions of the show
• SGU Transcript Project crowdsources transcriptions of Skeptics’ Guide podcast
• Amara Universal Subtitles is for captioning/translating videos yourself
• wreally transcribe is similar, but for audio only
• YouTube has an automatic captioning function too (not great, but a start)

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia
• Articles here on Skeptools about Wikipedia
• SusanGerbic‘s Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project is a great place to get involved

RBUTR

• RBUTR is available for the Chrome browser

Contact the speakers

• Tim Farley’s contact points are right here (look right)
• Derek Colanduno of Skepticality is on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus
• Shane Greenup of RBUTR is on Twitter and Facebook