Listen to short stories from the New Yorker's archives 

The New Yorker has a fiction podcast called The New Yorker Out Loud. Here's the feed. I'll check it out on the way to work this morning.

There's a little thing called pride 

Dave says the Mahalo Greenhouse program "seems like a bit of a plantation." I'd have to agree; it would embarrass me to do it. I would feel a little like my friends might see me working in a McDonalds. I'm always on the lookout for something like this, too -- an extra $600 a month at my salary would make a significant lifestyle difference for me, I'm sorry to have to admit. I would stoop a little, but this $10-15 per page rate feels just shy of my self-esteem mark. Too bad, because I can see areas where I could make an informed contribution to Mahalo, and blog about my work on it along the way. It looks like they need to fill in the books category, for example. It's mostly comic books right now.

Some commenters have an opinion that the $10-15 rate is per search result, not per page. I don't think that could be right. Somebody should clear that up.

It sounds like the pay structure is based on what Jason knows: the per-post rates for Weblogs, Inc., which are considered quite fair in the marketplace. For what it's worth from one writer who looks for opportunities like this, the rate for this different sort of work is off just enough to place it a scooch beneath the pride threshold.