Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

I've seen this idea before, and the main problem is that digitizing scanned words and CAPTCHA are at cross-purposes. The problem in digitizing is that the computer doesn't know the word. In CAPTCHA, the computer knows the word, and it needs to in order to validate the user. If you don't know

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

On 10/2/07, Jon D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Here's an idea... Some of you may have seen today's (and previous) Slashdot links on reCaptcha, a cool idea that's starting to be more commonly-used: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7023627.stm http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html Basically

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

But most of these points are in fact addressed by reCaptcha. The idea given below was simply using handwritten texts, instead of printed books as input, which would require just a little bit more verification of accuracy. -Jon --- Jacob Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen this idea

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

Having a valid CAPTCHA and then a digitization problem is okay, but recognize it doesn't mean that CAPTCHA can validly be used for digitization, or vice versa -- it just means that you've added a service element onto the CAPTCHA so people can do some useful work at the same time they are

[Ldsoss] BYU rss feed?

I've got a software program I'd like to develop here soon that will require regular text updates of BYU (and maybe other college football teams?) games, especially football. Is anyone aware of a service somewhere that provides rss play-by-play of BYU football games? Thanks, Jesse --

Re: [Ldsoss] BYU rss feed?

Does ESPN do college game RSS feeds? On 10/2/07, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a software program I'd like to develop here soon that will require regular text updates of BYU (and maybe other college football teams?) games, especially football. Is anyone aware of a service

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

The inventor of the captcha calls this Human Computation. He gave an interesting talk at Google on the subject that you can watch here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 He presents it very well and even non-techies (like my wife) enjoyed watching this when I showed

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing. Someone should tell the church ;) Also sounds like an interesting business idea. Farm out captchas to blogs, and pay people for using the captcha On 10/2/07, Jon D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's an idea... Some of you may have seen

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

On 10/2/07, Bryan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The inventor of the captcha calls this Human Computation. He gave an interesting talk at Google on the subject that you can watch here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 He presents it very well and even

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

On 10/2/07, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing. Someone should tell the church ;) Also sounds like an interesting business idea. Farm out captchas to blogs, and pay people for using the captcha Seth Godin actually already proposed this

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

On 10/2/07, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/07, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing. Someone should tell the church ;) Also sounds like an interesting business idea. Farm out captchas to blogs, and pay people for using the