Minnesota video blogger extraordinaire Chuck Olsen is in the Minneapolis Xcel Center getting ready to cover tonight's huge Obama rally (which happens to be in the very spot John McCain will accept his party's nomination in September) for The UpTake, a citizen video journalism site based in Minneapolis.  They managed to secure a hard-wired internet connection (most others will make do with wireless) and they will be live video blogging from the floor of the convention center.


Chuck earlier today setting up at the Xcel Center

So while you're watching Matthews and Olberman on MSNBC, crack your laptop and check out some unfiltered citizen journalism awesomeness.

One of the coolest things the UpTake folks do is use Nokia N95 phones in conjunction with a web app called qik to do live video blogging.