Always Blogging has an interesting post about the Why Are You Here Now? book project taking place on mTurk. Good reading.

From the post:

Currently the YRUHRN project is utilizing the service more fully than I have seen in the past. The project is Crowdsourcing a book based on the question "Why are you here right now?" The project's HITs include everything from writing the content, writing and executing a marketing plan, and soliciting related videos on YouTube based on the same question. The latter tasks are something that most YouTube contributors provide for no pay. The difference, of course, is that a project paying for a service, even at very low rates, is able to specify the content so that the whole amounts to something coherent -- in this case, a book.

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