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[beatniknight]

There's been a lot that's been said about Ian Bogost recently.  He's the game developer with Persuasive games who makes quick flash games to demonstrate news articles.  You can play, for instance, Airport Security, Fatworld, or Bacteria Salad, a game which has you selling food that's just contaminated enough to save money without it being TOO

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[scbenji]

There was an article today (in the WSJ, I believe) about online games that are covertly operated as free sources of human labor. One they mentioned involved competing against others on the internet at creating photo captions. But what was really happening was, since computers can't do this kind of work, they were using the human players to create tags for random images on the internet as a search engine aid.

Maybe I got that right, maybe I didn't. I was kind of tired when I read about it. It doesn't have much to do with your post, but it was interesting.

[beatniknight]

It was actually in Wired. Unless the WSJ did an article about it too, which would be a weird coincidence. That's how they got Google Image Search working. Guy named von Augh, I believe, started it. He's also the guy who made Captcha, those distorted letters you have to type in to get tickets on TicketMaster.