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Posted by Ben about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Just a bug I’ve noticed. When I’m on the Radar, “Your Watchlist” disappears, and the “toolbar” where you can edit your profile and invite friends is not there either. Not really a big deal, but thought I’d let you know.
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Posted by Beagleskin about 1 year ago
Last active 3 months ago
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I was just having a scroll through the Radar and realised that it stops at the 14th of March. What happened to all the interviews before then? Have they crawled off somewhere to die? Have they been dragged into a darkened room and gagged? Have they been sold to lesser sites as slaves?
Posted 10 months ago 8 responses
It’s been just over a week since we released Kudocities and the feedback has been flooding in. There are still a few glitches we need to sort out and some changes we need to make. Thanks for all of your suggestions.
Posted 10 months ago 1 response
When the chuggers go home, another breed of slightly annoying people come out to pray on us poor drunks – the rickshaw riders. Blocking our paths with their three wheeled sofas, ringing their bells like madmen in a campanology class, they will take sweaty tourists or overly rich drunks 500 metres for 20 quid. But we are sure some of them are nice.
Posted 9 months ago 1 response
It’s very trendy every year to knock the annual love-fest that is Valentine’s Day. Even here on the deeply loving community that is Kudocities, the 14th has its knockers.
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Posted by Beagleskin 9 months ago
Last active 8 months ago
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Y’know now that we have this whole new KCL layout I hardly ever notice when there’s a new Radar article. If you hide them down there then they won’t get seen, and then where will we throw all our insults and sarcasm? Hmm?
Posted 8 months ago 6 responses
A bloke called ‘PieandMash’ seems to be all over Kudocities at the moment. Organising themed party nights in Vauxhall, coffees, ranting about tattoos, waffling on about pies. He’s clearly a man with a fair bit to say. We therefore felt we should let this motorbike-riding, pie-chomping tattoo fetishist have a chat to us.
Posted 8 months ago 1 response
Mills Gee is a KCL’er with a mission. She’s tall, she’s pretty, and she’s a bit of a posh bird. You’d expect to see her swanning around the arcades of Pall Mall or something. But she got in touch to tell us about her latest adventure, a ridiculous tri-wheeled trial across India, organised to raise money for charity by the lovely people at theadventurists.com. And while it seems she has done a fair bit of backpacking, somehow we just couldn’t picture her up to her elbows in axle grease on a hectic Hindi highway. With diahorrea. So, we asked her to explain herself.
Posted 7 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.
Posted 7 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.
Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
In the week that Doris’ crack gets filled in, Tate Modern has announced plans for a rethink of the building’s river-facing facade. Between May and August, a group of the world’s most acclaimed street artists will be allowed to daub their designs across designated 15×12 metre areas on the north side of the former power station, the first time the exterior has been used in such a way.Read More
Posted 7 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
Posted 7 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
Posted 7 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
Posted 7 months ago 1 response
The Olympic Torch Relay is all over the news this morning for the wrong reasons as far as the organisers and host country are concerned. Was the police presence over egged or was security not tight enough? Were the pro-Tibetan demonstrators treated unfairly and corralled into tight corners when pro-Chinese people were allowed to freely line the streets and wave their flags? Can you separate Olympic values from that of its host country? Did anyone actually see the Olympic flame anyway? And did the Sugababes get all girlie and bottle it at the last minute? Read More
Posted 7 months ago 0 responses
Just as concern about our disaffected youth seems to be getting absurdly out of control and becoming a despairingly permanent fixture on our news radar, along comes a media friendly academic to reassure us that it has ever been thus. Read More
Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
Back of the net! Londonist’s favourite gargantuan timepiece, Big Ben, is basking in glory this morning, after being voted Britain’s most-loved landmark. Beating off the prehistoric monument and UNESCO World Heritage site Stonehenge into second, The Clock Tower was one of six London attractions to make the top 10. Read more
Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
We wouldn’t normally advocate Facebook groups,but this is one you HAVE to sign up to. You just have to. How amazing would this be? So now Life in Cold Blood is over, and the great man has hung up his broadcasting boots for good, what better tribute than to replace the starchy, boring voice on the London Underground with the silky, enthusiastic utterances of Sir David Attenborough. We’d finally learn what lives beneath Warren…READ MORE
Posted 7 months ago 5 responses
With the impending financial crunch staring us down and cautioning a wiser approach to spending, it’s good to know that the moneyed Londoner still has ample opportunity to disgorge his or her cash on the finer things. Case in point: a Sloane Square department store is selling cat-excreted coffee for £50 a cup. Read More
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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