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That's so cool! What was your handle? Mine was andresmh. I worked on the community part during grad school :-) Scratch on!

The online community was the focus of my dissertation, so it's really great to hear your daughter has benefited from it. We worked really hard to keep the community a friendly spac…

What is your Scratch handle? I worked on the online community for my dissertation and it's always great to know how the social aspect of Scratch has helped people in their journey.…

Glad the community and remixing got you engaged with Scratch! Those two things were the focus of my PhD dissertation at the Media Lab. Do you mind sharing what you do now? What was…

Somewhat related story: During the Mexican presidential election mentioned in the article, a PhD student at one of the top Computer Science departments in the U.S. got in touch wit…

I think a medallion represents a group of taxis cabs. Each cab has its own hack license.

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I kinda gave up, and simply create an email filter that deletes any email from the domain name of the sender.

Possibly relevant. I wrote this few months ago regarding some of the challenges with crowdsourcing crime reporting in the Mexican Drug War: http://readwrite.com/2012/08/14/the-prob…

How is this different from, say, a coffee shop saying "sorry, we're closed because the electricity went out"?

I would argue that people can die when Twitter goes down. In Mexico citizens are using Twitter to alert each other when Drug War violence erupts: readwriteweb.com/archives/shouting…

I do this with Mozilla Prism http://prism.mozillalabs.com/

Apparently they published the first one: http://neglectedwar.com/blog/archives/8516

what does she make with Scratch?

Here is something I wrote about the events: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/31/shouting-fire-in...

This is after closing the project and open sourcing it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/10/app_inventor/ Good news overall

I see. What is interesting is that most of the requests come from Samsung devices in Spanish-speaking countries, so I guess their keyboards must make it even easier to make the mis…

Yes. I think this is part of it. Here are the logs from a few weeks ago: http://j.mp/pBqfbx I'd be curious if anyone can figure out why so many visitors are using a browser called …

this reminds me of IDN domains, a few weeks ago I purchased fácebook.com and góogle.com. I get a few hundred visits every day. I posted about it here https://plus.google.com/110362…

could you explain? I'm a noob wrt the stock market.

Me too. I even tried to share a link to http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5023425/Holy_Bible%28s%29_-_... but it was denied

...and a bitcoin address

why is that a problem? serious question

I see, but the iPhone apps people often pay for tools they can use to create multiple artifacts. Maybe it'd be best to charge less per creation (like $1) and remove more features f…