tagged w/ Mechanical Turk
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"TheSheepMarket.com is a collection of the first 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left." Animations of each sheep's creation may be viewed at TheSheepMarket.com."
And if browsing through 10,000 hastily drawn sheep isn't enough for you, you can download Aaron Koblin's 42-page thesis on the project to have him "explore the discourse surrounding commoditization of human labor, the connotations of sheep, and the techniques of visualizing governance within the realm of media art." Go on!
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Google Earth has satellite photos. Amazon Mechanical Turk has the distributed work platform (crowdsourcing. You have some spare time on your hands. (You know you do!) Spend 20 seconds or 20 hours looking through satellite imagery for a potential crash site.Google Earth has satellite photos. Amazon Mechanical Turk has the distributed work... more
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