Archive for June, 2007
The Big Idea
Picture this: September 2006 and I'm on an online forum watching Travis Pastrana doing the double back flip on a motorbike at the 2006 summer X-Games. Shoddy low-res streaming can't take away the magic, but I want to see this baby on my big TV. And so it begins. Off I go to my favoured search engine and find that a search for X-Games gives 222 million results. Luckily the top result is for EXPN, the producers of the show. They've got clips, pictures and a tab that says 'schedule'. But ... all the schedule tab tells me is when… read more »
Staines
by Lottie on June 19th 2007 at 10:49 am
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Location is a bit of a buzzword at LocateTV, not just because of our regional search features, but chiefly because our development office is based in Staines. Our Middlesex enclave is much-maligned. The only way readers outside the UK would have ever heard about it is through Ali G and his "West Staines massive". It may be a little grubby, a little, well, "local", but it's our grubby, local place. It deserves a break. I found this blog which is positively evangelical about the place. There is apparently a campaign to rename it Staines on Thames, presumably to cultivate a… read more »
A mental exercise
by Lottie on June 13th 2007 at 8:00 am
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Try thinking of your favourite TV show of all-time! Now, try thinking about when it is next on? What channel is it on? How about the main character that mysteriously disappeared after episode three of season two? What else have they starred in? When are these shows on!? Are we alone in being haunted by these questions, buzzing through our minds and alighting our synapses throughout the early hours of the morning? If you haven't read the About section yet, you may not make the connection between this sudden inquisition and what Locate TV is "for want of a better… read more »
