{Please distribute this call for coders to large enrollment undergraduate classes} Crowd Sourcing the bin Laden Tweets Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are recruiting coders for a crowd sourcing experiment that will begin Friday September 23, 2011 and run though 5:00 PM EST Monday September 26, 2011. Participants will be asked to "code" or rate at least 750 tweets using a simple scheme designed to find the funniest Tweet in a large sample collected after the death of Osama bin Laden. We estimate the task will take no more than 2.5 hours. Our team will review a sample of each persons' coding to ensure there is basic compliance with the coding manual. After the task is completed and validated, you will receive a $25 Amazon.Com gift card. If you sign up and are selected, you will receive further instructions within 8 hours. The email that you enter will be the email address that your $25 Amazon code will be sent to. ALL 750 ITEMS OF CODING MUST BE COMPLETED BY 5PM MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2011. Register here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGliY3FnU3E5Y1... or here: http://bit.ly/pUfUYg The top five funniest Tweets--to be selected by an expert panel of comedic software engineers--will be presented to a large conference plenary session (AoIR 2011) where participants will vote for a winner using Twitter. The coder who identifies the funniest Tweet will receive a $100 gift card in addition to the $25 reward for doing the coding. Participants will need to sign up for a free DiscoverText (http://DiscoverText.com) account to be able to do the coding. The five coders who uncover the finalist "funniest Tweets" will further receive a complimentary Professional account subscription to DiscoverText for 6 months worth $150.00. We anticipate more applicants than we can support. Please take a minute when you sign up to explain why you would be a good coder for this task. -- Stuart Shulman President & CEO Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/> Have you tried DiscoverText? http://discovertext.com *Featuring the Facebook Graph & Twitter APIs*