Melody Kramer's open-source life, singing civil rights and a geek's guide to dating

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🗓️ 10 February 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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We talk to Melody Kramer, a public media oracle and digital brainiac who's taking her open-source ethos to the federal government. Beyonce singing her civil rights at the Grammys inspired us to get to know the political performers like Nina Simone who came before her. Plus dating tips for geeks by geeks. And your nerd confessions.

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita
0:18.2	and from W be easy in Chicago this is nerd at.
0:21.4	Coming up, melody Kramer tells us about open data,
0:23.8	open spaces, and the future of public media.
0:26.2	I think for a lot of people who code,
0:28.2	they're not necessarily thinking, oh, I want to work in audio
0:31.2	or I want to work for cities or I want to work in education. They're thinking, I want to work in audio or oh I want to work for cities or or I want to work in education
0:34.1	they're thinking I want to solve really complex problems in interesting ways.
0:38.0	Then we get to know some women who sang their civil rights.
0:41.2	That in your nerd confessions on Nurdett, because everybody's a little nerdy about something.
0:46.0	Make it snappy, nerd!
0:51.0	Nurd's Nurd!
0:52.0	Nert!
0:53.0	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:57.0	I'm Tricia Bobita and you're listening to Nurdette.
1:00.0	Melody Kramer is a legit, maybe the most legit public radio nerd.
1:03.8	Right, she's worked for Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, Fresh Air and NPR.
1:07.0	Most of her work has revolved around how to make public radio relevant in a changing media
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