melodykramer

##libraries

import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import csv


import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

melodykramer

I will be out of the office until May 30, 2016. While you wait, browse these ten awesome sites from my colleagues across the federal government:

1. The National Park Service's Unigrid System solves two primary problems of folder planning.

2. Watch a live view of the McMurdo Station in Antarctica

3. Listen to a podcast featuring members of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Team.

4. Watch horrifying near-misses on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's YouTube channel.

melodykramer

parent_name: Midas
child_name: open_opportunities_theme
id: midas
github: https://github.com/18F/open-opportunities-theme
issues:
stars:
forks:
type: app
owner: 18F

melodykramer

parent_name: Midas
id: midas
github: https://github.com/18F/midas
issues:
stars:
forks:
type: app
owner: 18F
team: internal-project

melodykramer

The Comms team provides an extra set of eyeballs to make sure the products you're shipping are easily understood by other agencies and the public. We've developed this checklist for project teams to ensure that your products have a strong communications strategy and that you're able to talk, write, and speak easily about your subject area.

Early in the process:

[ ] Designate a lead on your team to communicate with the Comms team
[ ] Brainstorm three potential blog posts that relate to your project (success stories, things you've learned, launches)
[ ] Ask the Comms team for editing assistance for any Pages or Guides you're writing about your project area.

Midway through your project

melodykramer

1) The last decade has seen an explosion of new technologies. Which developments have had the biggest impact on your career in media and why?

I would say, in no particular order

• The smart phone — I wrote the first article for NPR on the iPhone. I should clarify: I didn't write the article on an iPhone; I wrote it about the iPhone, which came out only eight years ago, which is hard to imagine.
• APIs and structured data - They allow content to be disseminated to all sorts of devices, and content to be surfaced for all sorts of reasons.
• WAZE - WAZE is the coolest thing. It has basically replaced traffic reports by thinking about how people's phones move, in cars, in aggregate. I think a lot about WAZE and other things like WAZE -- and how communities could think about this.
• A decade ago, I was a senior in college. Reddit didn't exist. Twitter didn't exist. Tumblr didn't exist. Snapchat didn't exist. Yik-Yak didn't exist. Yo didn't exis

melodykramer

# actual public radio stations
https://github.com/nypublicradio
https://github.com/KQED
https://github.com/SCPR
https://github.com/stlpublicradio
https://github.com/thebirn
https://github.com/michiganradio
https://github.com/kuscinteractive
https://github.com/klruweb
https://github.com/KPBS

melodykramer

Write mode says if it doesn't exist, create it. If it does, write over it.

If that's a problem, use append mode. Append mode says "if your file exists, great. if it doesn't exist, then it will add it to the end -- which is the beginning of a new file"