Oppose the proposed draconian Canadian Copyright legislation

30 Days of DRM: 30 Things You Can Do
Educate yourself about the proposed Canadian Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), which looks to be even more restrictive than the current American counterpart. While the current legislation is widely seen as being fair and appropriate, Michael Geist has a list of 30 ways that you can make your opinions known about the draconian changes to the Canadian DMCA that tilt control toward the biggest corporate media companies.

Michael Geist is the best Canadian journalist covering digital media issues, such as copyright, DRM and the Internet. He is also not afraid of calling things as they are.

Best sites for streaming television

http://www11.alluc.org/alluc/tv-shows/
http://tv-links.co.uk (taken down Oct 19, 2007)

My friend Rhianfa recommended these excellent sites as the best ones for
complete seasons of a huge variety of tv shows. Brilliant!

100 Blogs We Love

PC World – 100 Blogs We Love

The Linkjockey updates have been spotty over the past few days, but this should keep you busy in the mean time.

After some initial troubles with their post, PC World published a list of 100 Blogs We Love. Yes, there are some of the usual suspects, such as: Boing Boing , Lifehacker and 43 Folders. However, there's also the hidden gems, such as: the hilarious I Can Has Cheezburger, the culinary Slashfood, and for cool parents Daddytypes. It seems like they missed one great blog, the Linkjockey. ;)

Today's Link source: Kottke

The iPhone is coming! 5 Essential iPhone links

June 29 is the official release date for the iPhone in the USA, and the hype is enormous. When will it come to Canada or other countries? No word yet.

Maybe it's not so bad, and us foreigners will let the bugs get worked out first. Are you now wishing that you'd purchased one of the original iPods? Didn't think so.

Apple iPhone - official Apple site, with initial iPhone specs

MY iTablet - iPhone news blog (which covered the iPhone rate plans released today)
iPhone Hacks - another iPhone news blog, covering reviews, hacks, and the hype
David Pogue's iPhone FAQs 1 & 2 - Written by columnist from the NY Times
Reviews may be added as they start popping up.

In case you're wondering what the iPhone has to do with Music Tuesdays, the iPhone is also an iPod and has 4 GB or 8 GB of storage for music.

What's on TV in Canada?

Best TV listings for Canadians: Sympatico / MSN TV Listings/ TV Guide

Mrs. Linkjockey doesn't like me flipping through every single channel, trying to find something interesting to watch on the boob tube, and the local cable company's listing is too slow for me. Yesterday, I saw a review of all the TV listings sites on the Internet... for Americans. You enter your postal code, and the sites tell you what's on television in your area. None of the sites worked for Canadian postal codes. None.

So I did some of my own research, and discovered that the best results for me, the best TV listings for Canadians comes from old reliable TV Guide . They show listings for cable, digital cable, satellite providers and antenna for your postal code, over a 2 hour window. They show all the channels on the same window, and if you click on the name of a show, you get a little synopsis. In other words, they provide everything you're looking for, without actually streaming the show to you.


Honourable mention: Canadian Cable Listings from TV Times
If your TV provider isn't listed on TV Guide, TV Times may have a better selection of TV providers. The only downside is that they only show 20 channels at once. And my dad was telling me that TV magazines are dying.

Personally recommended links

Linkjockey

There is SO MUCH out there on the web. After the initial novelty of surfing the web to wherever the links will take us, we tend to settle into the same routine web commute everytime we load up our internet browsers.

This daily blog aims to point you to something new and exciting on the web each and every day, that was personally recommended to you by the Canadian blogger, Christopher Walks.
It's a new discovery; a new adventure for you on the internet everyday.

Okay, so maybe it's a bit tacky to recommend my own blog as the link of the day. This is the identity statement for this blog. On the last day of 2006, it's also the "trial opening" of a new web destination that I hope you'll enjoy coming back to everyday to find the newest and most interesting sites on the internet.