Earn Gather Points for Uploading Your Pics

Gather.com is offering members the chance to earn 10 Gather points for every photo they upload to the site between now and June 30th. Gather members can rate and comment on each others' photos, and the member who uploads the pic that receives the most '10' ratings will win a $20 Borders gift card. And the member who writes the best comment about the winning pic will get one too!



If you're not a member of Gather.com, or you don't know what it's all about, basically it's an online community where you can publish stories, essays, poems, recipes, articles, photos, drawings or whatever. You can join groups, participate in discussions, rate other members' stuff, or read the comments they leave about your stuff. And you get Gather Points for doing all of that. Then you can redeem your Gather Points for things like a $10 Borders gift card (625 points), an Omaha Steaks gift certificate (1,565 points) or a $50 Home Depot gift card (3,125).



I have to admit I've been a member at Gather.com for quite a while now, and I haven't contributed anything to the site. I don't have a single Gather Point. I've occasionally read some of the short stories and articles posted by other members, and thoroughly enjoyed them. I really should start participating. Maybe I'll start by uploading some photos!



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Make Money at Amazon Mechanical Turk

Anybody looking for something different in terms of online earning, or if you'd just like to see what kind of "work" gets posted at Amazon's Mechanical Turk ought to drop by and have a look around.

I was pretty active when it first came out, then it seemed every time I checked in, there were few if any HITS (individual "work" units) available. But I got an email from the the other day that reminded me to have a look, and there were heaps of different assignments available.

Most of the HITs pay between 2 and 10 cents each, and take anywhere from a few seconds to 5 or 10 minutes to finish. Some recent HITs I did included viewing blogs and providing keywords to describe them, and identifying road signs in photos. Some of it's fun at first, but a lot of it gets tedious pretty fast. But if you've got some time to kill, and want to kill it while making a bit of pocket change, the Mechanical Turk isn't a bad way to do it.

You can have your earnings transferred to your U.S. bank account, or to your Amazon.com gift certificate account. So far I've transferred about $20 to my Amazon account thanks to the Mechanical Turk