Melody Joy KramerVerified account

@mkramer

thinking & learning in public. Now: Wikimedia. Poynter. Mom. Then: 18F, NPR, Nat. Geo., WWDTM, Fresh Air. Nieman Fella. Penn.

carrboro nc
Joined November 2007

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    As we struggle toward a shared definition, here is mine: Public media is service.

  2. I’d love to see this replicated by non-profit news orgs cc:

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    Jan 5

    This campaign from @nationalgeographic, , et. al. is incredibly smart: 1. Small, actionable ask 2. Introduces people to new mission-driven orgs. but within a particular subject area 3. Collaborative 4. Scales

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    Will robots automate jobs? 's talks to 's about how automation helps reporters

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    4) Example: Uptrends on Wikipedia, by week, day, month, language:

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    Jan 6

    I owe a huge thanks to for her great list of tools you can use to investigate trends on Wikipedia. Out of curiosity, I looked up "chain migration." Take a look at how traffic to that Wikipedia page has changed since 2015.

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    The Buffy Hummingbird (Leucippus fallax), a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family, pictured on Isla Margarita, Venezuela.

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  13. Jan 5

    Here's more about the images: A male Mandarin Duck at Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Gloucestershire, England. Its right wing has been clipped.

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  14. Jan 5

    The strangest and most wonderful thing I did at work this week was work with and and to find beautiful CC0/public domain images of birds for a billboard in Times Square.

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    And if that's the case then some of these tweets are moot, because every extension state, I *think* doesn't make IDs mandatory until 2020. But I'm seeing conflicting information so please don't quote me on that.

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  16. Jan 5

    Also responding to this tweet in case you're seeing it in a chain. It looks like NY, LA, and MI were all updated today and granted extensions:

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    In fact, I just did the math. About 42% of Americans have passports, if you divide the # in circulation / population. So lots of people don't have passports, and most don't have one of these other forms of ID:

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    Actually this would be such a good thing for a news org to do as well.

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  20. Jan 5

    IDEA: Someone build a single-subject website: "IS MY ID COMPLIANT FOR REAL ID?" Click on state. See compliant ID.

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  21. Jan 5

    This campaign from @nationalgeographic, , et. al. is incredibly smart: 1. Small, actionable ask 2. Introduces people to new mission-driven orgs. but within a particular subject area 3. Collaborative 4. Scales

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