<p>Our friends at <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2008/06/01/video-recordings-of-the-house-of-commons-on-theyworkforyoucom/">MySociety.org</a> have a new crowdsourcing project that's really neat.</p> <p>They have added <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/video/">video</a> of <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/">debates</a> in the House of Commons on their <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/">TheyWorkForYou.com</a> Web site and are asking individuals to help match up each speech with the corresponding video clips. Wow. They are crowd sourcing all the work that the technologists behind <a href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Metavid</a> have been doing themselves for C-SPAN coverage of Congress. Recently Metavid has added <a href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Help:Participation#Improving_Archive_Accuracy">ways for you to help</a> too.</p> <p>TheyWorkForYou.com provides a randomly-selected speech from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansard">Hansard</a>, the printed transcripts of debates in Parliament. You can search the video for the correct snippet. You then timestamp the video by hitting one button button. </p> <p> MySociety.org has set up a "top timestamper" contest as well. Check it out.</p> <p> </p>
