May 22, 2008
Teaching and USNS Mercy
Just wanted to give a nod to one of my star students from the spring semester, who does public affairs for the Navy and just returned from helping to set up the public affairs portion of a hospital ship's trip to Southeast Asia. She even got her ship's captain blogging:
"It has been a busy time here aboard Mercy. Our scheduled four day stop in Pearl Harbor was cut to a two day stop in order to get us headed west sooner. I’m sure that many of you are asking the question, “With what has happened in Myanmar, will USNS Mercy be going to help?” As of right now, I have to say, “I just don’t know.” With this early departure from Hawaii, the powers-that-be are certainly positioning us to do that – provided, of course, the government of Myanmar would let us in. Too many unknowns at this time to know what the outcome might be."
I'm really proud of Rosie and how much she's internalized and evangelized the stuff that we learned this spring. Go Navy!
May 06, 2008
G4
Here's my debut on G4's "Attack of the Show" from last night, talking about YouTube and the 2008 election:
May 01, 2008
Hunter Allen
I found out this week that one of my colleagues from Dean for America passed away. Hunter and I worked really closely together during my first months at the campaign before he shipped out to Iowa. He'd come to the campaign from LA because he really believed in it and Howard Dean and he was always energetic and lots of fun.
The only team photo we ever took on the campaign was when Peter Jennings came to visit the headquarters:
One of my funniest memories of Hunter was that during the campaign Friendster was really big and he didn't want any ambiguity about his photo—so he had me take this one in front of the restroom:
Anyway, we'll miss you Hunter. I'm sorry that I'll miss the memorial service on Saturday.