Wow.

I could end this blog post right there and be satisfied that I'd gotten my point across.  Beyond expectations, and yet perhaps not surprisingly, we had over 3,500 people turn out at the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament Rally in Ottawa.  Having such a great turn out and so much great energy at the rally has put a fantastic cap on two weeks of effort to bring this together.

My task during the rally was to stream live video and audio to www.noprorogue.ca.  That was largely successful except that I parked myself too far away thinking I could plug into the sound board.  In the end I was just using a microphone and desperately wanted to move closer ($10 webcams don't have zoom!).  Eventually I did.  Sound quality was OK except for one part when the Nortel employee was speaking.  Apologies for that - this was a first try!  If you're so disposed you can catch the full broadcast on my UStream video feed - in it's 2 hours of unedited glory.   As soon as I finish posting this I'm going to edit down a more interesting version :).

In the mean time here's a great clip of "The Proroger" to tide you over, courtesy of someone else at the rally.  How's that for grassroots!

The short story is this was an absolutely great experience - and topping it off by singing O Canada (at volume!) along with the other organizers to wrap the show is something I'll remember forevermore.  Does anyone have a pic or video of that?  I would like to put it in my digital memory box. :)

Speaking of which - here's one for you Jesse!

So.  What now? :)