Voices of Amazon’s Anonymous Workforce Mechanical Turk var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9199463-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @mechanicalturkdiaries)http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/Well I have been doing the Mechanical Turk program for about a month now. I am very pleased with the...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/4038486568http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/4038486568Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:08 -0400My husband got a cute Pit Bull puppy for his 65th birthday. The first night he made her a bed on the...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/3876854755http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/3876854755Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:00:08 -0400I started doing Mturk a couple of years ago. I was making jack shit and ended up with a bunch of...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/3809053561http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/3809053561Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:00:07 -0500My Mturk story One of my office collegaues has been working in Mturk for the past 18 months and has...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/3791854148http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/3791854148Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:23:15 -0500Up until about eighteen months ago I was a successful executive at a Fortune 500 corporation. I had...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/195069553http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/195069553Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:14:06 -0400I entered law school because I had no idea what else to do with my liberal arts background. To my...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/194242734http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/194242734Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:14:06 -0400This is the memior of a klutz. A klutz who surrounds herself with other klutzes. It was the winter...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/193431290http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/193431290Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:09:13 -0400In the town where I live we have been hit hard by the recession. A lot of jobs have been taken away...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/192612671http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/192612671Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:08:50 -0400Show Me The Way To Go Home…. We’re broke right now – covering the bills and that’s about it. Nothing...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/191822005http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/191822005Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:08:20 -0400Children have this innocence that we can only dream of. The world will rob them of this in time and...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/191067092http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/191067092Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:06:36 -0400off the beaten pathI’m a country girl, born in michigan. A child of the 80s a teen of the 90s and an adult in the...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/190281923http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/190281923Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:03:48 -0400I am an insomniac It’s tough not being able to sleep at night. I dont know if it’s a...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/189445858http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/189445858Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:03:14 -0400Say it with me: “Amazon Mechanical Turk”. Sounds kinda strange, right? Right. I honestly can’t...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/188607946http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/188607946Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:00:55 -0400A tough couple of days on the Turk, as the usual sources of easy HITS seem to have dried up....http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/187762489http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/187762489Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:59:18 -0400I first heard about Mechanical Turk from National Public Radio, my addiction at the time. I was...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/186981311http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/186981311Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:57:23 -0400Last friday I went with my father and his ex-girlfriend to the sea. It was so blue, so blue! Fucking...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/186173782http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/186173782Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:56:25 -0400When my significant other first told me about the mechanical turk site, I thought she had lost her...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/185385581http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/185385581Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:56:29 -0400One would think that as someone who tests software for a living, that one wouldn’t want to work...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/184580000http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/184580000Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:56:04 -0400I am a 40 year old female college educated mechanical turk. I am a new turk too. My husband and I...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/183737128http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/183737128Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:53:09 -0400I got into this Amazon Mechanical Turk gig to make a little extra money. I first noticed, to my...http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/169901907http://mechanicalturkdiaries.com/post/169901907Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:04:06 -0400