羊市論文

O'Reilly Radar - The Sheep Market Thesis：

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a system for getting people to do small tasks via an API for small amounts of money. The Sheep Market is perhaps the most interesting application based on MTurk. Whereas most Human Intelligence Tasks (or HITs) are about data verification, this task involved drawing a sheep. 10,000 sheep in total were accepted, arranged on his site and then offered for sale. Aaron Koblin, the creator of the Sheep Market, has written his thesis (Word doc)about the experience.

Aaron Koblin 以每隻兩毛錢的代價，雇網友來畫一萬隻羊，然後每隻賣個20美元。非常有趣。
儘管這不像百萬網頁會真的銷售一空，但論文裡面關於MTurk、HIT與社會/經濟轉變的討論，值得一讀，或許也可以激發一些網路服務的創意思考。