Emily and I ran the live Super Tuesday video coverage on Washingtonpost.com, Newsweek.com and Slate.com. They had never done this type of event before, so it was quite disorganized. Emily was the director and I was the switcher. Neither of us had headphones, so we had to watch our bank of monitors and switch to whoever was moving their lips.

The set was not very well thought out. It was in the middle of the Washingtonpost.com newsroom. All of the video equipment was scavenged from other parts of the building. I had THREE switchers. Each one was routed through the last, so I had to carefully trace the video path and press three buttons to pull up any source.

The coverage lasted from 6:00 pm to 1:30 am - commercial free. We were exhausted before we even started, because we had arrived at 7:30 am to interview Rick Warren (the Purpose Driven Life guy). As the night went on, Emily had to give me more and more time to pull up a video source, because it was getting harder to trace the correct path.

John Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, hosted the show. We were joined in studio by Bob Woodward, and other political commentators. We received phone calls from Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, John Kerry, Howard Dean and journalists around the country.

The worst part of the night was when we went live on BBC World. We were so nervous about the camera placement, that we decided to adjust it mid-interview. As soon as we unscrewed the tripod, the camera was jerked to the right by a taught cable. Emily quickly adjusted it as almost pulled out my hair.

We are doing another live event this Tuesday for the DC, Maryland and Virginia primaries. Don't miss it!