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April Fools on urban75: an attack of the Comic Sans
Posted on Monday, Apr 1, 2013 | 1 CommentThere was a short-lived but suitably outraged reaction from some members on the busy urban75 forums early this morning, when the site’s font switched to the monstrosity that is Comic Sans. -
Community website urban75 notches up 12,000,000 forum posts
Posted on Sunday, Feb 17, 2013 | 1 CommentJust eleven months after the urban75 forums registered its 11,000,000th post, the Brixton-based, community-funded bulletin board has now notched up its 12 millionth user post. -
A selection of strange search terms used to find the urban75 boards
Posted on Thursday, Dec 20, 2012 | No CommentsThanks to Google’s real time analytics, I can see exactly what search terms people have just typed into Google’s search engine to find the urban75 bulletin boards. -
In response to the news of Will & Kate’s new baby: the greatest anti-royal rant ever
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 | 5 CommentsWhen this magnificent rant appeared on the urban75 forums, I felt duty bound to immediately share it with the world. So with thanks to the author ‘dylans’, here’s what I consider... -
Map shows off the brightest 350,000 stars of the web – and urban75 is there!
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012 | No CommentsA website developer has created an innovative map showing off the biggest websites from around the world, with each one being represented by a star. And urban75 is twinkling in the heavens! -
Funeral for a friend in Greenwich. RIP Sam Hiller
Posted on Thursday, Mar 29, 2012 | 1 CommentToday has been a very sad day, as we travelled to Greenwich for the funeral of Sam Hiller, a kind, generous, gentle, funny and unique young man, loved by many. -
Brixton-based urban75 forums notch up an incredible 11 million posts
Posted on Monday, Mar 19, 2012 | No CommentsOn Sunday, the urban75 forums notched up their 11 millionth post, a pretty incredible landmark for a non-profit, self-funded bulletin board that carries no advertising. -
The most popular urban75 blog posts of 2011: Shard, Slutwalk, Naked Bike Ride and BT Tower
Posted on Saturday, Dec 31, 2011 | No CommentsAs 2011 draws to a close, I’ve broken out the calculator and done some totting up to find out which posts have proved the most popular with readers on my... -
A festive feast at the urban75 Annual Christmas Curry, Khans, Brixton Water Lane
Posted on Saturday, Dec 17, 2011 | 2 CommentsOn Tuesday, we held our annual urban75 Christmas curry at Khans, on Brixton Water Lane, with a record-breaking turnout numbering over 40 folks. -
urban75 camping trip to WoWo in Sussex, September 2011
Posted on Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 | 1 CommentOur late summer/early autumn urban75 camping trip in Sussex turned out to be a heap of fun, with loads of singing around roaring fires, drinking beers and mulling over life’s... -
The top ten most popular posts on the urban75 blog so far…
Posted on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011 | No CommentsAlthough I’ve had a blog of some description being updated on urban75 since the site first started (waaaay back in 1994/5), it’s only fairly recently that I transferred from Blogger... -
urban75 celebrates 10 million posts
Posted on Monday, Apr 4, 2011 | No CommentsBlimey! When I started urban75 way back in 1995, I never thought it would still be going strong in 2011, and today sees the bulletin board hitting the astonishing total of... -
Clueless Google declares urban75.org a ‘content farm’
Posted on Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 | 1 CommentMan, this is annoying. Some blundering oaf at Google has dreamt up an algorithm designed to hoof out dodgy ‘content farm’ type websites from the rankings, but screwed it up... -
Top ten most popular posts on the urban75 blog for 2010
Posted on Friday, Dec 31, 2010 | No CommentsSince moving over the urban75 blog to WordPress in March this year, site traffic increased massively, with the busiest week recording an incredible 10,000 page impressions. Hopefully the blog will... -
The urban75 Christmas Curry 2010 at Khans, SW2
Posted on Thursday, Dec 16, 2010 | 1 CommentWhen it comes to top curry houses, there’s none finer than Khans in Brixton Water Lane, SW2, so it’s a natural choice for the annual urban75 curry.