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.
About Katharine
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, the weekly radio show and podcast, co-produced with PRX. Her journalism has won many national awards, including the Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award two years in a row and a Peabody award. Before Reveal, she was a senior writer for Salon and for Fast Company magazine. Mieszkowski has a bachelor's degree from Yale University. She grew up outside Houston, but now lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. @kmieszkowski