Audio - Calgary Centre-North Riding Debate

As a voter I've been frustrated during my last-minute-scramble to edumicate myself about local candidates before I run out to the polling station. (Citizenship is only something we need to worry about during an election after all.)

That's when I find there is nothing online. For federal parties and candidates, yes. But not a lot local ridings. There are only 308 federal ridings in Canada. How much effort would it take to videotape every debate and post them online, assuming one person from each riding took responsibility? Not a lot.

But technical hurdles and manpower might not be the ultimate obstacle to complete coverage of these events.

Blip.Tv is hosting 234 MB Windows Media file, 170 MB iPod compatible MPEG-4 and MP3 audio file. YouTube copy can be found here. Transcript published here.

Video - DemoCampCalgary #10

Coverage of DemoCampCalgary #10. If you live in Calgary and either want to launch your own startup, find a more interesting place to work or even just see what's coming down the local software pipeline then check DemoCamp out.

Oh, and there's beer.

The highest quality source for recycling this footage is 648 MB Windows Media file, which is what Blip.Tv has transcoded into FLV.