andresmh

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by andresmh 9y ago
That's so cool! What was your handle? Mine was andresmh. I worked on the community part during grad school :-) Scratch on!
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by andresmh 9y ago
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 space for everyone. It was, and continues to be, a lot of w
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by andresmh 9y ago
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.
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by andresmh 9y ago
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 your Scratch handle? Scratch on!
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by andresmh 10y ago
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 with me (through a shared friend) because he saw I was doing re
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by andresmh 12y ago
I think a medallion represents a group of taxis cabs. Each cab has its own hack license.
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by andresmh 12y ago
Shit Reddit Says
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by andresmh 13y ago
I kinda gave up, and simply create an email filter that deletes any email from the domain name of the sender.
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by andresmh 13y ago
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-problem-with-crowdsourci...
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Researchers Publish Guide for Tech Interventions to Address Human Trafficking(zephoria.org)
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by andresmh 14y ago
How is this different from, say, a coffee shop saying "sorry, we're closed because the electricity went out"?
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by andresmh 14y ago
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_fire_in_a_crowded_hashtag_narcocensorship.php
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by andresmh 15y ago
I do this with Mozilla Prism http://prism.mozillalabs.com/
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by andresmh 15y ago
Apparently they published the first one: http://neglectedwar.com/blog/archives/8516
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by andresmh 15y ago
what does she make with Scratch?
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by andresmh 15y ago
Here is something I wrote about the events: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/08/31/shouting-fire-in...
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by andresmh 15y ago
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 mistake.
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by andresmh 15y ago
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 Netfront (apparently from Samsung mobiles).
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by andresmh 15y ago
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/110362380602139255131/posts/NPS3VNyD...
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by andresmh 15y ago
could you explain? I'm a noob wrt the stock market.
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by andresmh 15y ago
Me too. I even tried to share a link to http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5023425/Holy_Bible%28s%29_-_... but it was denied
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by andresmh 15y ago
...and a bitcoin address
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by andresmh 15y ago
why is that a problem? serious question
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by andresmh 15y ago
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 from the free one (e.g. animations could expire in 1 day and
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by andresmh 15y ago
I am a bit confused about the pricing model. Why did you decide to charge per creation rather than per month? Who is the expected audience? Again, great tool.
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by andresmh 15y ago
I'm one of the people behind Scratch < http://scratch.mit.edu&#62 ; and I can tell you that Automatoon is seriously cool. I can already see a lot of our users would like your tool. Kudos to you for empowering amateur users!
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by andresmh 15y ago
Another option, albeit expensive and time consuming, is to start snowballing by reaching out to users in person. For example, we ran many in-person programming workshops for kids using scratch.mit.edu and now we have more than 800,000 user
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by andresmh 15y ago
One of the reasons Facebook and Twitter are used by activists to spread their message, is that non-activists use these media for sharing banal update of their kids, cats and other mundane things. One problem with these type of well-meaning
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by andresmh 15y ago
I am wondering why they didn't go for something that allows for richer semantics like XHTML+RDFa http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
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by andresmh 15y ago
Which maker/electronics projects do you see as similar? Arduino?

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