Comments on: Not even a mouse http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/24/not_even_a_mous/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tapan Bose http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/24/not_even_a_mous/comment-page-1/#comment-39666 Tapan Bose Sun, 25 Dec 2005 18:42:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2782#comment-39666 <p>Read (I think it was some recent issue of The Economist) something like this is going on in China where cheap labour is employed by the wealthy (from the west) to pay the willing Chinese to play computer games (on their behalf) so that the the payer(from the west)can come up to higher levels of the computer game and then play. Outsourcing of a kind !</p> Read (I think it was some recent issue of The Economist) something like this is going on in China where cheap labour is employed by the wealthy (from the west) to pay the willing Chinese to play computer games (on their behalf) so that the the payer(from the west)can come up to higher levels of the computer game and then play. Outsourcing of a kind !

]]> By: ngm http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/24/not_even_a_mous/comment-page-1/#comment-39622 ngm Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:49:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2782#comment-39622 <p>There's some weird plagiarism going on here. An almost identical article from <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FJ13Df05.html">Asia Times</a> says the following:</p> <blockquote>When her three-year-old son goes to sleep every night, Mallika Rao, a graduate in history, begins to work from her third-floor apartment in Gurgaon, a Delhi suburb. Mallika's job is to click on online advertisements. She doesn't care about the ads that in any case are targeted at United States/United Kingdom-based consumers, but diligently keeps count of them</blockquote> <blockquote>A growing number of housewives, college graduates, and even working professionals across the country are in a rush to click paid Internet ads to earn anywhere between US$100 and $1,000 every month.</blockquote> There’s some weird plagiarism going on here. An almost identical article from Asia Times says the following:

When her three-year-old son goes to sleep every night, Mallika Rao, a graduate in history, begins to work from her third-floor apartment in Gurgaon, a Delhi suburb. Mallika’s job is to click on online advertisements. She doesn’t care about the ads that in any case are targeted at United States/United Kingdom-based consumers, but diligently keeps count of them
A growing number of housewives, college graduates, and even working professionals across the country are in a rush to click paid Internet ads to earn anywhere between US$100 and $1,000 every month.
]]> By: Sonia http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/24/not_even_a_mous/comment-page-1/#comment-39585 Sonia Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:07:55 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2782#comment-39585 <p>A friend of mine worked for a company in CA owned by an Indian that did the same thing. I'm so surprised they never got caught.</p> A friend of mine worked for a company in CA owned by an Indian that did the same thing. I’m so surprised they never got caught.

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