{"id":521,"date":"2006-07-24T12:55:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/07\/24\/the-sheep-market\/index.html"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:32:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:32:02","slug":"the-sheep-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/07\/24\/the-sheep-market\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sheep Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2006\/07\/24\/turks\/index2.html\">Salon talks about the Amazon Mechanical Turk<\/a>, and also pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesheepmarket.com\/\">the Sheep Market<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In its earliest days, someone posted a request on Amazon Mechanical Turk, offering to pay 2 cents for a drawing of a sheep facing left. Peter Cohen, director of Amazon Mechanical Turk, says the company was &#8220;puzzled by&#8221; the request. The requester was Aaron Koblin, a student in UCLA&#8217;s Design\/Media Arts program, who was writing his master&#8217;s thesis about the site. He was intrigued by Amazon&#8217;s effort to &#8220;establish a framework for the utilization of people as computers,&#8221; as he wrote in his thesis. &#8220;My project was very tongue-in-cheek,&#8221; he tells me. &#8220;On the one hand, it&#8217;s using the system the way it&#8217;s meant to be used. On the other hand, it&#8217;s asking them to do this ridiculous thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grad student invited turkers to draw up to five sheep at the rate of 2 cents apiece. Over 40 days and 40 nights, the sheep flooded in at a rate of 11 per hour. By the end, 7,599 turkers had participated. He collected 12,000 sheep and promptly put 10,000 of them up for sale at the rate of $20 for 20 sheep at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesheepmarket.com\/\">the Sheep Market<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon talks about the Amazon Mechanical Turk, and also pointed me to the Sheep Market: In its earliest days, someone posted a request on Amazon Mechanical Turk, offering to pay 2 cents for a drawing of a sheep facing left. Peter Cohen, director of Amazon Mechanical Turk, says the company was &#8220;puzzled by&#8221; the request. 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