[Team Artail] Support TA for Free! If you have a little free time...

[mrartemis@comcast.net]

I've recently stumbled across something new on Amazon.com called MTurk.  
The URL for it is http://www.mturk.com.  So, what is it?  It's basically 
a way to make a small amount of money for completing a task that 
requires human intelligence.  Tasks that computers can not do.  
Currently there are thousands and thousands of HITs (Human Intelligence 
Tasks) on the site for the A9 BlockView project. (Photos of 
storefronts).  These are paying $0.03 per HIT completed.  I've been 
spending a few hours doing them myself over the past day, and have 
already made over $10 in my own personal account, so they add up!  And 
each one only takes a few seconds to do. (Though if you're on dialup 
it'll be longer, obviously).

Now, how can this help raise money for Team Artail?  Well, I've created 
a seperate account that all Artail supporters can login to for doing 
these tasks for a combined pool of money that will go toward the site!  
Basically, anyone who wants to do a little bit of clicking to donate to 
TA, can login and do it.  The more people who do it, the better, as the 
combined efforts of a lot of people can raise a lot of money for the 
site!  So, here's directions on how to do it if you want to give it a 
shot and support TA at no cost to you :)

1. Head over to www.mturk.com
2. Take a look over the details of the site and how it works if you 
haven't already, or if you're curious, of course.
3. Login as user artiep at gmail.com with the password artailturk
4. This should bring you to the "Dashboard" screen, with compiled 
statistics.  To find HITs to work on, click the HITs tab at the top of 
the page.
5. You'll now see a list.  On the right side of these rows is listed the 
reward for each task ($0.03 for the A9 BlockView tasks), and the number 
available.  If there are none available when you look, just check back 
an hour later, more are continuously added!  The rest of these 
directions will be fore the A9 BlockView Image Adjustment tasks.
6. To work on a HIT, just cecide which city you want to go with 
(recommend one with a lot of HITs) and click the "View a HIT in this 
group" link on the far right side of the page for it.
7. Now, you'll be brought to a page with the name of a business, and the 
address of that business, along with 8 photos.  The idea is to choose 
which photo best represents the storefront, building entrance, or 
address of the business.  As the directions state.  If none of them do, 
then choose 'None of these pictures represent the business'.
8.  You must accept the HIT displayed to you before you can work on it.  
So as soon as it comes up, if you want to do it, then click the "Accept 
HIT" button.  If you don't like the one it gave you, then you can click 
the "Skip HIT" button to see a different one.
9. Once you accept the HIT, just do like the directions said and pick 
the best photo of the bunch for the business listed at the top of the 
page.  Be sure to do it as accurately as you can, as the HITs are 
evaluated and get approved or rejected.  Only approved HITs are paid 
out, so don't blindly click!  Once you've decided, click the Submit HIT 
link at the top (or bottom) of the page.  That's it!  Then continue to 
the next HIT and do it as many times as you want to keep earning money 
for TA!

It's up to you how much time to spend on it.  Come back every day for a 
while to continue to give more money for the site by completing these 
simple tasks. :)  I'm sure those directions look like a lot of work, but 
once you know how to do it, it literally takes only a few seconds to 
complete a HIT.  Let's see how much money we can earn together ;D

One final note.  If I see anyone attempting to transfer the earned money 
to a bank account or an Amazon gift certificate, then I will cancel this 
whole thing and close the account.  The earned money is to be 
transferred only by myself to my own bank account to go toward paying 
for TA's costs.  You folks just work on the HITs as a way of donating to 
the site.

I hope many of you will give this a shot, and put in some time if you 
don't have anything else to do.  Those of you with hours of free time to 
waste could surely raise quite a bit of money ;)  I thank you for your 
support!  If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me back.

Artie~
http://www.teamartail.com