Bibliography

1. “reCAPTCHA”

Background: While it isn’t exactly an article and more of a product brochure, I thought it’d be appropriate to start with my prime example’s homepage. This page discusses the details and full extent of applications of reCAPTCHA.

How I used it: I used this to obtain a general understanding of reCAPTCHA’s applications with Google.

2. “Massive-Scale Online Collaboration”

Background: One of the four creators of CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, and Duolingo gives a seminar on TED Talks about his experience with massive collaboration. The article is a transcription of his talk.

How I used it: I used the article to add two or three paragraphs in the center of my essay to further solidify the relevance of massive collaboration. Without reCAPTCHA as a reference, the idea might have seemed mundane or arbitrary to the reader.

3. “Internet Users”

Background: A page solely dedicated to displaying the amount current and past users of the internet.

How I used it: This source was crucial to my paper in the aspect of providing solid ground of my basis that the internet is home to potentially limitless workers. Upon anyone visiting the site he could observe the number has been, is, and probably always will be rapidly rising.

4. “Seven Wonder of the Ancient World: Khufu’s Great Pyramid”

Background: A page dedicated to the history of the Pyramid of Giza, including facts about things from its construction to its surroundings and prominent features.

How I used it: Somewhere between picking my topic and writing my research position, the pyramid changed from a supplemental topic to the center of my paper, which wasn’t entirely a bad thing. This was the main source of my information about the pyramid in question.

5. “How online gamers are solving science’s biggest problems”

Background: As off-topic as it sounds, this is an article useful to my cause. The linked page gives way to a few “sub-articles” or pages where the reader can participate in any mentioned projects. The projects described in this article all use the guise of gaming to “coax” users and/or gamers into solving “real world” problems.

How I used it: Although the article never explicitly praises “massive online collaboration”, what it describes is the same exact concept which I used to further press the importance of using the resources of millions of people and the single-most important tool, the internet, to complete monumental projects for the better of humanity and the rest of the world.

6.  “Aliens built the pyramids”

Background: Chris Skinner provides some irrefutable evidence that Aliens assisted in the construction of ancient Egyptian pyramids.

How I used it: I used Skinner’s argument to perform a counter-argument against my main evidence, namely the pyramids.

7. “Google Finally Puts Captchas to Good Use”

Background: A source to further solidify a previous source (see “reCAPTCHA”) with actual writing. This article discusses Google’s use of Street View images in the reCAPTCHA programs.

How I used it: The previously stated source is only the introduction of Google’s plans for reCAPTCHA. This article was more credible as a citation and helped me further back Google’s intended application for the human-verifying software.

8. “What Makes Pi So Special?”

Background: An article describing where pi is found in real-life and how it is a naturally occurring number in nature.

How I used it: One of Skinner’s points was that you could reach pi (up to the 15th digit) some way by taking measurements of the pyramid and putting them into some arbitrary formula. This article served as proof that pi is a naturally occurring number and that it wasn’t as he claims to be calculated by the builders.

9. “Eisenhower’s Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige”

Background: A book about Eisenhower’s reaction to the launching of Sputnik

How I used it: This proved to be a good source in the name of conveying the true reaction of people after Sputnik for those who weren’t around to experience it firsthand.

10. “The History of Astrology — Another View”

Background: A lengthy article on exactly what the title says: the history of astrology. It brings into view accounts of the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Babylonians, and even a brief amount of Hindus.

How I used it: Although not much from this article pertains to any kind of collaboration, I was able to cite the article and use excerpts to further disprove Skinner’s argument against pyramids.