This is a website featuring one thought per day, collected from the elastic workforce on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk website. “A penny for your thoughts” is an intervention on Mturk.com that promotes independent thinking and interpretation among members of the Mturk community. A human intelligence task (HIT) was placed on Mturk.com that offered a penny in exchange for one unique thought. Over 150 workers were commissioned. The topics shared in the submitted thoughts ranged from worries about the global economy to private thoughts about domestic life, praise and prayers, and more. On this site, one thought is shared during each day.
In addition to this site, a series of books were created to support each theme that arose within the shared thoughts. Anyone can download and print the books at mturkprojects.info.
“A penny for your thoughts” is a project conceived and executed by xtine and the Mechanical Turk workforce, who were commissioned with a one dollar grant from ASDF (2009). This project, including thoughts and books, are licensed CC-BY-SA.
