I just read a TechCrunch post on companies that should exist but dont, which reminded me of an idea I had years ago during the dawn of the internet age, to use Internet technologies to farm out translation and transcription work to low-wage areas, not just India and China but the rural United States, etc.

One of the companies mentioned in the post is a podcast transcription service. It occurs to me that the new Amazon web service, Amazon Mechanical Turk, could be the key to implementing just such a service.