{"id":481,"date":"2014-07-08T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/07\/08\/netflix-offers-job-to-watch-movies-fulfills-your-deepest-dreams\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T17:55:00","slug":"netflix-offers-job-to-watch-movies-fulfills-your-deepest-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/07\/08\/netflix-offers-job-to-watch-movies-fulfills-your-deepest-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix offers job to watch movies, fulfills your deepest dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know if anyone from the UK reads this blog, but if you&#8217;re an ex-pat or for some reason just enjoy reading American library blogs, we want to direct your attention to what may be the greatest job of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/a-peak-at-massive-tagging-project.html\">As we&#8217;ve mentioned before<\/a>, Netflix categorizes movies through a massive tagging project that includes superficial and thematic elements of every item in their collection. This is a huge undertaking, and given the subjectivity of art, it needs to be completed manually. We suspected this information might have been supplied by each film&#8217;s distributors, but as it turns out, Netflix hires in-house taggers to watch each film and supply appropriate keywords. Now they&#8217;re hiring for a tagger in the UK whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/watch-netflix-in-bed-for-a-living-9588918.html\">entire job would involve watching movies and describing them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s obviously a degree of expertise required, as Netflix is looking for people with a background in film studies who can more precisely describe genres and themes. And we imaging that eight hours a day of note-taking and film-viewing would eventually grow tiresome and might even rob you of the pleasure of watching movies. Still, an opportunity exists to get paid to watch movies. For real!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t know if anyone from the UK reads this blog, but if you&#8217;re an ex-pat or for some reason just enjoy reading American library blogs, we want to direct your attention to what may be the greatest job of all time. As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, Netflix categorizes movies through a massive tagging project that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-streaming-video","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}