During our class on the Iraq War and how it was being covered on the Internet, Garrett mentioned an article he had read in Esquire called, “The Things That Carried Him,” by Chris Jones. The piece is the story of how one soldier’s final trip back to the United States from Iraq. I bought [...]
Archive for April, 2008
26 Apr
Jenny Is On The Farm
Greetings from Iowa!
The semester is over, so I immediately took off for the farm – so Jenny really is from the farm right now.
I always find it interesting coming back to Iowa. I can always tell I’m back in the Midwest because when you come out of the gate area at the airport, [...]
23 Apr
Who’s Running This Ship Anyway?
Say hello to my first blog written during class (sorry Garrett, I was just so compelled to get this down). We’re currently talking about the knowledge of technology and the Internet among our government officials and leaders. Mostly, this knowledge is sorely lacking almost to the point of embarrassment when our own senators and representatives [...]
22 Apr
Who Will Lead the First Campaign?
We may be in the midst of electing our 44th president, but as Garrett Graff explains in his book, this is really The First Campaign. It’s the first campaign in the sense that the 2008 presidential election is the first election where the campaigns blaze a trail across the World Wide Web just as [...]
22 Apr
We Really Are the Media
I seem to be tracking my fellow classmate Rosie in that I didn’t know I was missing a blog post on the book We the Media by Dan Gilmor. And just as Rosie said, I think it is fortuitous as I think I now have a much better perspective on what the concept means [...]
19 Apr
My Silent Trip to Atlanta
I told everyone that I came down with laryngitis on Friday after my trip to the Newseum. Well, even after many prayers, my voice didn’t return in time for my flight to Atlanta on Sunday. I was heading down there to learn about a training curriculum for teaching people in my organization about [...]
16 Apr
It’s All About Strategy
My classmate Diana of Prettyeyes recently posted a really helpful link to our class del.icio.us feed: What is your social media plan?
Plan?? The article talks about driving traffic to your blog via social media sites. Wow, I just worked out how to build in time to post on a semi-frequent basis, now [...]
15 Apr
Does Online Politics Get Out the Vote?
After thinking about what I know of online campaigns in this year’s election (I’ll admit, my knowledge is somewhat limited), I wondered how far off the candidates are from truly using the social web as it is intended.
Take Wikipedia for example, a site where you can make changes right away if you have the correct [...]
7 Apr
The view from Iraq
After five years in Iraq, it sometimes feels in the United States that we aren’t at war anymore. We’ve become numb to the fact that countless men and women are fighting everyday. Slowly the news has turned from a daily death toll to more stories about the housing crisis, a possible economic recession, [...]
