{"id":649,"date":"2006-02-06T10:12:19","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=649"},"modified":"2006-02-06T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T16:12:19","slug":"mechanical-turk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/mechanical-turk\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Turk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasblog.com\">Dallasblog.com<\/A> reports about a new service from Amazon called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mturk.com\/mturk\/welcome\">Mechanical Turk<\/A>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea is to break up complex desktop jobs into small portions, then pay for production of each of these &#8220;Human Intelligence Tasks&#8221; directly. Right now the activity is dominated by college kids and the housebound who take on HITs for chump change. But the concept has legs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this will help us get over those annoying tasks like balancing our checkbooks.<br \/>\nWhen I get a moment I&#8217;ll check it out and let you know what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallasblog.com reports about a new service from Amazon called Mechanical Turk. The idea is to break up complex desktop jobs into small portions, then pay for production of each of these &#8220;Human Intelligence Tasks&#8221; directly. Right now the activity is dominated by college kids and the housebound who take on HITs for chump change. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/mechanical-turk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mechanical Turk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-at","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}