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Here is the closest way to explain what I am trying to do with simple natural language software programming: enabling networks of people who find value in the same things to easily trade information within a hopefully direct and easy to understand format. Amazon is doing something like this: perhaps they are thinking much farther ahead than I thought.

Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it. Learn more.
Choose from thousands of tasks, control when you work, and decide how much you earn.
Do you want to quickly and easily create your own HITs on Amazon Mechanical Turk?

And what’s a HIT, you ask?

HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. These are tasks that people are willing to pay you to complete. For example a HIT might ask: “Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?” Typically these tasks are extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer.

Maybe I should figure out a way to integrate this mTurk approach into these blog posts. I wonder if there would be a way to facilitate hooking into their API, and actually providing cash incentives for the fulfillment of these small tasks.

{See also: Tim Ferris}