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Ah, I meant let humans summarize articles instead of relying on libots.

Are there any alternatives that actually let humans do this? Perhaps a site that employs some game mechanics? First to summarize, +10 points. Correction, +5 points. Request to summarize (bounties), +n points.

Back in elementary school, my math teacher gave out virtual money (in the form of xeroxed monopoly money stamped with a special seal) to students who completed homework assignments and those that did well on tests. One day out of every week, he would bring a bunch of goodies (e.g. mechanical pencils) to class and auction them off to the highest bidders with these monopoly money. The auctions were very enjoyable since it was interesting to see people outbidding each others in the process. Being much of a saver myself, I accumulated a huge sum of these monopoly money and kept all of them in one of my 3-ring binders. One day, I discovered someone stole all of them while I left my backpack unattended. After telling my teacher about it, he told everyone to open their backpacks and inspected them. However, we never found out who stole them and it sucked because after that incident, I started to distrust some of my friends. I think this system could be improved if the rewards were non-tranferrable. Perhaps someone can build a web application that lets teachers employ such technique and allows students to accumulate money in the digital form?

They can improve their current procedure by using this technique: http://joemaller.com/___

1. Append bookmarklet as suffix to a short URL 2. Tell user to visit that page and bookmark that URL 3. Instruct user to edit that bookmark and delete the prefix of that URL

This removes the step of asking user to copy the URL from a textbox. Plus, if the user misses the step of removing the prefix portion of the URL, clicking that bookmark will direct them to the instruction page.

But yeah, the process still stinks.

If I recall correctly, authorizing TwitPic makes you automatically follow @TwitPic and @noaheverett.

This reminds me of Quora.

I agree with you 100%.

All I'm saying is the nurse example doesn't really prove the main argument, which is that fewer interruptions equals fewer errors. Right now, it appears everyone reading this wants to apply this seemingly proven technique in their own work place, when (maybe) all they need is a device that reminds them that 1.) they make mistakes and 2.) their mistakes are being measured and observed.

Placebo effect?

The nurses are aware that the vest wearing policy is introduced to reduce medication errors. Wouldn't the nurses just be extra cautious while wearing these vests (not because there are fewer distractions around them but because they know they are been observed)?