"I make $1.45 a week, and I love it!"

Salon, Jul 24, 2006
On Amazon's Mechanical Turk, thousands of people are happily being paid pennies to do mind-numbing work. Is it a boom for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/07/24/turks/

This piece also appeared in The Best American Technology Writing 2007, edited by Steven Levy.