You know, with totally not-cliché names like ‘CanTech’ or ‘Techmaple’ or ‘Northern something or other’…

It is a familiar experience for any Canadian technophile: you read an interesting news story on a Canadian website, get terribly excited (at least if you’re as nerdy as me), head off to Google it – only to then get equally disappointed when you learn it isn’t available in Canada. From the iPhone to DRM-free music, Canadian news sites continue to obliviously post stories that, while certainly interesting to Canadians, contain little direct Canadian relevance and I for one am getting a little tired of it.

The Globe and Mail is especially bad at this and incessantly post tech news and product releases from the US that are not yet available in Canada. While it must require quite a bit of labour to update all the AP/Reuters stories that come in, I’m guessing I can’t be alone in my increasing frustration about the lack of dedicated Canadian tech news site. About the closest I’ve found is the infrequently updated Digital Thoughts, which tends to focus on home video/audio and, to be frank, isn’t exactly as readable as Gizmodo.

So, where are the Canadian tech blogs? While there are plenty of good web analysis sites, why is there no actual Canadian version of Gizmodo and Engadget? Well, to that question, I have no real answer. It’s possible that no-one really wants to blog about Rogers updating their cable service to 7Mbits/s or Bell’s latest phone line-up. But wouldn’t it be great to have a centralised place for the rumours about the Canadian release of the iPhone? Or a deal of the day at Futureshop, Best Buy or Canada’s online tech shopping sites like Tigerdirect.ca or Anitec?

The solution, of course, will be some brave entrepreneur who’ll get tired to reading about these mythical ‘Tivos’ or iTunes movie downloads and start something up themselves. And while I would love to, I have enough trouble keeping SiW up-to-date (and ‘planning’ my move to WordPress).

So – any brave Canadian geeks out there ready to take the plunge?