Completely agree with his sentiment regarding TurkIt and the prospect of making iterative tasks easily accessible to the masses. Read some of the papers that G

Completely agree with his sentiment regarding TurkIt and the prospect of making iterative tasks easily accessible to the masses. Read some of the papers that Greg Little has put out from MIT to open up your eyes to some advanced uses of Mechanical Turk. Using the RTurk gem and my recently released Turkee gem ( http://github.com/aantix/turkee http://github.com/aantix/turkee ), I've been able to quickly throw together a demo Rails application that allows Turkers to vote on previous Turker submissions or use other turker's submissions as the basis of their own own submission. With my experience under this type of interface most Turkers will vote for one of the previous submissions but if you offer a small bonus for the highest voted submission, more turkers will take a chance at submitting something original (even if it's a trivial 50 cents bonus). The demo's code is available under my github account (aantix/Turkee-Iterator). Here's some of screenshots of my demo; the top image shows my initial parameters for setting up my Turkee task. The second screen shows the responses I received from the Turkers. The third screen shows the form that was presented to the Turkers (either vote or submit a joke). http://imgur.com/13rCM.png http://imgur.com/13rCM.png http://imgur.com/ghveH.png http://imgur.com/ghveH.png http://imgur.com/229uc.png http://imgur.com/229uc.png Right now I am writing a game that generates content using a couple iterative approaches to content generation with Mechanical Turk (hence my interest in this area). Don't hesitate to drop me a line if you have any problems with getting my demo running.