Hiring someone to run a super simple website
November 9, 2011 7:16 PM Subscribe
I'm in the process of creating a sports-related website that will relay some very simple information. The information is already out there on the web, just not aggregated in this manner. It needs to be updated daily, and I'd like to pay someone to do it.
Let me give some more details:
- I'll be able to give very explicit instructions on how to update the website - pointing to a few other specific websites, highlighting which information should be used.
- It will need to be updated once per day and will take about 15 minutes.
- It is so simple that I don't really need anyone with previous writing experience.
Is there a website you'd recommend to find someone to do this? Essentially a freelancer, but I'm hoping to pay a relatively low amount given the nature of the work, so perhaps a website more focused on outsourcing jobs to areas with cheaper labor. Thoughts or experience here?
Let me give some more details:
- I'll be able to give very explicit instructions on how to update the website - pointing to a few other specific websites, highlighting which information should be used.
- It will need to be updated once per day and will take about 15 minutes.
- It is so simple that I don't really need anyone with previous writing experience.
Is there a website you'd recommend to find someone to do this? Essentially a freelancer, but I'm hoping to pay a relatively low amount given the nature of the work, so perhaps a website more focused on outsourcing jobs to areas with cheaper labor. Thoughts or experience here?
Sounds like a job for the Mechanical Turk API. Post it every day, collect 2 and occasionally run a task to sweep up disagreements with a third vote.
posted by michaelh at 7:29 PM on November 9, 2011
posted by michaelh at 7:29 PM on November 9, 2011
Amazon's Mechanical Turk was pretty much built for this kind of task... though a daily deadline might be a problem given the sporadic nature of how the work is bid out to people.
If the place where you are grabbing the information from stays static in terms of it's layout, you might be able to hire someone to write a script that "scrapes" these sites, and then updates your website.
posted by baniak at 7:31 PM on November 9, 2011
If the place where you are grabbing the information from stays static in terms of it's layout, you might be able to hire someone to write a script that "scrapes" these sites, and then updates your website.
posted by baniak at 7:31 PM on November 9, 2011
Response by poster: Totally unfamiliar with Turk. Is there a way to link the job to a blog post (or something similar) so when the work is done it would be automatically published? Or would it have to go through me?
posted by rastapasta at 11:54 AM on November 10, 2011
posted by rastapasta at 11:54 AM on November 10, 2011
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