by Katharine Mieszkowski
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Curtis Taylor, 50, a corporate trainer in Clarksville, Ind., who has earned more than $345 on Mturk.com, doesn’t even think of turking as work. To him, it’s a way to kill time. “I’m not in it to make money, I’m in it to goof off,” he says. Taylor travels a lot for business [...]
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Mechanical Turk and 12,000 drawings of sheep facing left
Posted in The New Economy, tagged The New Economy, mechanical turk, internet cyber job on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Example of cyberspace overtaking labor laws
Posted in The New Economy, tagged internet economy, cyber law, mechanical turk on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
by Katharine Mieszkowski
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The real human ingenuity of Mechanical Turk shines in the novel ways that companies and workers use it to get tasks done efficiently. CastingWords is a transcription service built entirely on the work of Mechanical Turk transcribers and editors. With a little code, plus the turkers, it has succeeded in basically automating the [...]
Mechanical Turk: “I make $1.45 a week and I love it”
Posted in The New Economy, tagged amazon mechanical turk, cyber labor, human intelligent task, law on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
On Amazon Mechanical Turk, thousands of people are happily being paid pennies to do mind-numbing work. Is it a boon for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?
by Katharine Mieszkowski
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A picture of a woman’s pink shoe floats on my computer screen. It’s a flat, a street version of a ballet shoe. My job is to categorize [...]
World of Warcraft Gold Farm, the Future of Work
Posted in The New Economy, tagged warcraft gold farm, outsource, internet economy on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
by Wagner James Au, Gigaomnimedia
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If you want a glimpse of the future of work in the broadband age, you can find it, of all places, on MTV’s website. Their recent gaming news segment, “Is Mining Virtual Gold Exploitative?” features the first video footage shot inside Chinese gold farms, those gray market companies which collect and [...]
The new internet-driven economy
Posted in The New Economy, tagged internet, The New Economy, virtual gold, warcraft gold farm on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
So I was searching to find an alternative way to make money. I know that people have been playing online games and in addition to the already-acute addicted players, newbies (or simply noobs) have signed up to join the ever-increasing size of the massive online multiplayer game of Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. Secondary and tertiary [...]
