On 3/12/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
That's a *great* idea IMO and quite easy not to make a COI.
Oh incidentally, I wanted to point out that one weird economical thing about the mechanical turk system is that workers are in oversupply, and work is scarce. And people find these tasks *fun*. People actually carry out these pretty mindnumbing tasks for ridiculously low rates, like $1 an hour. So we could probably literally buy sources for 10c each, and get other jobs done (like categorising, copyediting etc) even cheaper.
http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html?URL=/tech/feature/2006/07/24/turks/
Steve