Posted 8 months ago 1 response
When Kudocities met Londonist, it was like the first time Posh Spice and David Beckham’s eyes met: mutual media advantage at first sight.
Londonist presents a fine blog about this fine city, so we thought it would be great if we could join together and provide Kudocities members with a regular peek into Londonist’s take on London life; while those lovely Londonistas are looking for fresh content from you – the evil borg that is the Kudocities membership.
We asked Hazel Tsoi and Lindsey Clarke, (Kudocities’ very own stella) Editors at Londonist, to explain what the site’s all about.
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Posted 8 months ago 4 responses
Cast your beautiful peepers below for the first of many daily feeds we are taking from the kindly bloggers at londonist.com. We hope our new partnership with Londonist enhances your life, like a good session with a packet of floss and some tooth whitener.
There was so much crazy action in the mayoral campaign last week that Londonist was left gasping to keep up. The most entertaining bit was when Boris Johnson launched his environment manifesto with a photo opportunity on Hampstead Heath. BBC London viewers and others were treated to the splendid sight of The Blond hacking his way through a patch of north London undergrowth – perhaps specially provided for the occasion, who knows? – wearing that mildly self-satirising expression we all know and some love, but which he probably needs to keep off his face between now and 1st May.
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Posted 8 months ago 2 responses
For London’s business and financial elite, the pink pages of the Financial Times are the only thing to be seen reading on the morning commute to work. However, the FT’s sturdy grip on matters monetary will be challenged when the Wall Street Journal goes on sale later this month.
From April 16th, the US edition of the paper, printed right here in London, will be sold by 250 newsagents in the City, Canary Wharf and the West End, along with Heathrow and London City airports. New proprietor Rupert Murdoch is keen to raise the worldwide profile of his latest acquisition, and landing it squarely on the doorstep of the FT will extend to newsprint the battle the two venerable titles are currently waging online. Read More
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Posted 8 months ago 3 responses
Hundreds of commuters were stuck underground for nearly 3 hours last night, their hometime ruined by a power failure on the Jubilee Line. As usual, such bad news doesn’t make it onto TfL’s website but the BBC report that Blitz spirit prevailed with resigned passengers sharing food and seats while the unfortunate driver kept them up to date with… well, not very much really. ‘Read More”:http://londonist.com/2008/04/detrainment_and_2.php
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Posted 8 months ago 3 responses
Having previously interviewed Sian Berry, the standard-bearer for the Greens now currently in a pact (electoral, not economic or suicide we assume) with Labour’s Ken Livingstone, Londonist sent a set of common questions out to (most of) the other candidates in the May 1st mayoral election. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
We all know how much Kudocities members love cake, oh yes, and fine food . I, for one, am as fat as a house, and it’s not booze. It’s lovely, lovely food.
Well now there’s a chance for you to prove you’re the best cook/blogger/ kitchen and internet genius with a great contest – Food 2.0 – taking place on Sunday May 18th from 11am to 5pm, at Marylebone Farmer’s Market and The Cookery School, near Regents Street.
Food 2.0 is a new project, organized by leading review site TrustedPlaces and London blogger Annie Mole, that brings food bloggers, food photographers, journalists, authors, TrustedPlaces members, cooks and ordinary bloggers together for a meet up.
See it as a Cook-a-thon for bloggers or an interactive version of MasterChef (without those annoying presenter blokes ) – but in pairs, with people sharing the tasks of cooking, and photographing and videoing their culinary efforts.
We’ve tied up with the organisers, who have invited a Kudocities team to take part – so if you know how to create the perfect soufflé, and have a mate who knows the difference between a sieve and a colander, read on….
Up to 24 participants will be grouped in teams of two to compete in creating the best meal, judged by a panel of expert judges and the general public online. Participants will cook a three course meal for four – made up of their “signature” or favourite dishes which they have announced in advance.
Teams will source ingredients from a nearby farmer’s market and independent shops – which must be captured on film as a video blog and by ordinary camera – and then cook the meal, in two and a half hours.
There’s a guest after-lunch speaker, too: Jo Hemmings, a professional dating coach. Jo is researching a new book and will be speaking about Food and Sex. Not sex with food, dammit.
The whole day will be filmed by TrustedPlaces.
Experts will later vote for the best food photography and the best video blogging. The latter categories will be judged “virtually” – the week after the event, when participants have had time to Photoshop their work.
Participants will be invited to document their experience of Food 2.0 by blogging, taking pictures, and videos of the event, and then putting their masterpieces up on a group website.
There will then be a public “People’s Vote” to determine the best online experience.
Phew. Sounds like a fantastic way to spend a day – and the kindly people running the thing have allotted TWO places to a Kudocities team, if you are interested. Prizes haven’t been announced, but we’re sure they will be food-related and better than a kebab from a converted ambulance.
Fame, food and fun – what’s not to like?
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Posted 4 months ago 6 responses
Highly regarded cycle store Velorution has posted something bizarrely horrible and horribly bizarre on their widely-read Velorution cycling blog. It’s a hard to follow rant that seems to be slamming immigrant communities for driving badly and not understanding cyclists, also slamming the traffic police for being from the Essex suburbs and not doing enough for those on two wheels. Read More
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