Mechanical Turk

I've been trying to figure out how to make some extra cash. One idea is to publish my past short stories through Amazon's self publishing thingy - it's just taking too long to rewrite my longer story.

Another thing is Amazon's Mechanical Turk page. Here's a bit of what Wikipedia has on it ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace enabling individuals and businesses (known as Requesters) to coordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. It is one of the sites of Amazon Web Services, and is owned by Amazon. Employers are able to post jobs known as Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs. Workers, colloquially known as Turkers, can then browse among existing jobs and complete them in exchange for a monetary payment set by the employer .....

The name Mechanical Turk was inspired by "The Turk", an 18th-century chess-playing automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen that toured Europe, beating both Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this "machine" was not an automaton at all, but was in fact a human chess master hidden in the cabinet beneath the board and controlling the movements of a humanoid dummy. Likewise, the Mechanical Turk online service allows humans to help the machines of today perform tasks for which they are not suited ...

I've tried doing some of the jobs at Mechanical Turk but so far it's been kind of disappointing ... most tasks only pay a penny! Here's an article from CNET that is pretty informative: Amazon's Mechanical Turk lets you make $$$, sort of

It may come to me sending the cats out to find part time jobs, perhaps with the circus :)