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  • Textual Prostitution

    Amazon.com’s “Mechanical Turk” is a service where you can farm out small tasks for small fees.   It’s called “crowdsourcing”, and it’s certainly a low form of employment.  It has also turned into a new form of pollution. Paid Puffery Here’s a one of the better tasks: Visit a site and ask a question. Visit this […]