Having spent much of the last decade addicted to it, I have officially left Quora.

 

Full story here : http://exquora.thoughtstorms.info/

Expect to see me use the time to get back into ThoughtStorms and more blogging / writing in my own spaces.

I stand by this Quora answer on Marx.

But there is something a little bit unnerving about Quora telling me they just sent it to 100,000+ people.

What are some of your favorite 60s psychedelic era songs?

Read Phil Jones' answer to What are some of your favorite 60s psychedelic-era songs? on Quora

Leechblocked Quora

Had to be done ...

 

Quora's Misogyny Problem

Violet Blue has some extracts from a disturbing Question.

I notice she also has a book that looks interesting.

My First Fiverr Gig

Things that interest me : Quora, Fiverr, RSS, scripting, micromarkets ...

What if you put them together? My first Fiverr gig!

Why?

Well, first I wrote a quick script to extract my recent Quora answers as part of taking back control of my online writing. Then I offered it to Quorans, but realized that, for some, the technical aspects would be too difficult for them to download and use. How else might those people engage my hack?

At the same time I'm thinking a lot about micromarkets, the future of work (both my personal future and more general questions about how it's going to be organized), about where RSS and feeds are going in the post-Google-Reader / Fargo age.

It seemed like a fun experiment to do.

BTW : Thanks to my mother for the great flower picture I used to advertise this gig. Originally I posted a screenshot of the text of some Quora answers and them reformatted in a new page. But Fiverr obviously thought that was too boring and rejected the gig until I changed it. A beautiful, but irrelevant, flower seems to be more to their taste.

Quoran Wands

Quora has a magic wand section?

Interesting Mechanical Turk questions and surveys.

From Russ Hammond

If you had an unlimited budget, what are some interesting crowdsourcing questions you would post on Mechanical Turk?

I like this one : I would pay the workers to ask their neighbor about a (small?) problem the worker can solve, and pay the worker to solve it. And then see what was the problem, and how it was fixed.

If one could observe all transactions on the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace, what would would be some of the most interesting things to know?

Is Wikipedia being disrupted?

Here's a fascinating Quora answer which shows why BitCoin could be very interesting indeed.

Meanwhile, I asked a question about bitCoin and Botnets.