Thanks to Ben Hyde – The Sheep Market is an incredible example of distributed work and micro-contributions. Go ahead create your own sheep.
The data is staggering:
10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Avg time spent drawing each sheep: 105 seconds
Avg wage $0.69/Hour
Rejected sheep: 662
Collection period: 40 days
Collection rate: ~11 sheep/hour
Unique IP adresses: 7599
So why are people doing this?