"Instead I fill my departmental hours casting words of praise into the bureaucratic abyss".
Amazon takes a 10percentt commission above what a service like Casting Words pays a human transcriber.
Casting Words is currently charging 42 cents a minute for the service.
(It's not). He also twisted the words of Democrats, casting words of sympathy for undocumented immigrants as support for MS-13 gang members.
Many other sites specialize in offering businesses and individuals related outsourcing services, from CloudFlower, which draws its workers from Mechanical Turk and Samasource, to CastingWords, which specializes in transcription.
One new start-up, Casting Words, is taking advantage of the Amazon service, known as Mturk, to offer automated transcription using human transcribers for less than half the cost of typical commercial online services.
CastingWords, another service, seems to be going strong.
As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me.
They take a commercial genre, then add jazz or strings, a retro feel, solid cinematography, a grownup cast, and words like "wretched" and "daft".
Casting melancholy words against a widescreen, dreamlike backdrop has made for an unusually uplifting combination.
