Is our Mayor a Londonist reader? Perhaps: he's embraced the need for city-wide wifi coverage, something we've been helping out with for years with our wifi map. But Boris wants to go one bigger: he's demanding the whole city, from Stratford to Southall and all points inbetween, be bathed in wireless connectivity. Johnson needs to get with the times here - doesn't he know we're already wifi capital of the world? Could this revering of......

In the words of The Smiths (we loosely paraphrase here:) Some towns modems are bigger than other towns modems. We think that's what Morrissey was singing, his cadence is a little hard to follow at times. Anyway, it seems the biggest broadband speeds in Britain are to be found in our ever-humble city. Yes, not only is London the all-conquering wi-fi capital of the world, but a survey for BBC News has revealed our......

A man rolls into a bar. Sounds like the start of a dumb joke? It’s not. Wheelchair-enabled people like going out in the evening as much as anybody. What does appear to be a joke is how difficult it can be to find info about wheelchair accessible pubs et al in London. We did a bit of online snooping and were dismayed by the lack of resources out there. What material we did come......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Queen Boadicea 292-294 St John St EC1V 4PA Nearest Tube: Angel 0207 354 9993 11.30am-Midnight (Monday-Thursday) Midday-2am (Friday-Saturday) Midday-11pm (Sunday) Map Expect to Pay: Under £10 for lunch Rating: 8 out of 10 Ooh wait. Do we have time for one more pub lunch before 2007 comes to a close? Well then, allow us to mention Queen Boadicea. There’s......

Anybody who's spent an afternoon walking around Upper Street, iBook in hand, trying to log on to Islington council's "Technology Mile" service may smirk, but a new report says Londoners are the most wifi-happy people on the planet. According to the Wi-Fi Hotspot Index, networks set up by the likes of BT and The Cloud in London account for one tenth of the UK's wireless usage, and just over 1% of the worldwide total......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Benugo Throughout London Average Lunch Price: £5 Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Snoop around the Internet and you’ll find several references to sandwich shop Benugo’s free WiFi. For example, this post by Gavin Bell suggests that other cafés ‘should take the lead from Benugo and offer free WiFi like they offer free sugar’ because the ‘cost per month of......

A festival weekend wouldn’t be complete without the threat of rain, but while fans at Wireless in Hyde Park mostly got away dry, 500 geeks at Alexandra Palace couldn’t escape Saturday's storm. Hack Day is a 36-hour marathon of coding, pizza, beer and music sponsored by Yahoo! and the BBC. But the festival gods weren’t about to spare us just because we were indoors. Instead they sent two bolts of lightning sizzling down onto......

Like an invisible web of impossibly magic pockets of the internet hovering in London’s heavens, weird and wonderful WiFi proliferates enabling us tech-savvy, laptop bearing citizens to maintain our social networking and blog addictions pretty much 24/7. Unsurprising news, then, that wireless networks in London have almost trebled in the last year. We’re outstripping New York and Paris with the rate of growth of our WiFi hotzone with public access hot spots up by......

Londonist presents a weekly series about that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Spice ‘N’ Rice 53 Long Lane EC1A 9EJ Map Average Lunch Price: £5 Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Newly opened Spice ‘N’ Rice, on Long Lane across from Smithfield Market, offers readymade curries, cooked fresh daily and ‘inspired by our mother’s home recipes.’ The curries are prepared with vegetable oil, not Ghee; thus, that bloated......

UPDATE 5 October 2008 Another update adding a few more places. NOTE, Coffee Republic do offer free wifi at most outlets, but only for the first 10 minutes, according to their website. UPDATE 16 August 2008 The map has once again been updated. We now list 235 places that offer complementary wifi. Please keep additions and corrections coming in the comments, and thanks to all who have contributed so far. UPDATE 27 April 2008......

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal......

This was not a very happy week for the -ist network as one of our own, Phillyist co-editor Star C. Foster, passed away early in the week. Her wit, intelligence, and good nature shone through the site, making Phillyist an immensely fun read. She was loved by many and will be missed by all. Phillyist paid tribute to her this week with a heartfelt letter to her and an obituary. And now, the awkward......

We always welcome more WiFi in the capital... if only it could all be free too. The latest spot to get hot is a moving target - the Heathrow Express: T-Mobile will be providing on-board wireless broadband access on Heathrow Express trains, the operator announced on Tuesday... As of early 2007, users will be able to buy access passes on board the train and continue to use them at T-Mobile's hot spots at Heathrow......

Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. SFist can finally admit it: It's possible that Bary Bonds juiced. Is Bay Area artist (tempted to put quotes around that) Thomas Kinkaid "kinda crappy" or "explosively crappy" or does he just like marking territory? SFist wonders. Technology comes in the form of new Mac goodness......

There's a lot of WiFi buzz going on at the moment. First the Square Mile gets plugged in and 350,000 workers are able get online without hassle (that's the first first time we've ever been jelaous of city types). Then the Beeb run an article getting all excited about wirless and predicting that soon the net will become "ubiquitous like power and water." Last week even the Thames went wireless; and today we hear......

Sorry we're late. We got held up on the Tube (one of our servers went down). 41% of all children in London are living in poverty. To try and combat this Ken Livingstone and the Association of London Government have today launched The London Child Poverty Commission. American officials at Guantanamo Bay claim that 'dozens' of the detainees there had contact with the terrorist cells responsible for the July 7 bombings. The Tower of London's......

Catching up with the battle of the Davids is always fun. We don't follow it daily because it's just not that interesting, but about once a week we like to dip into the battleground of the Tory leadership like hungry crows looking for a juicy eyeball. Reading about young upstart David Cameron having the potential yoof vote stolen from under his nose by Davis' blatherings about a "nip and tuck” political future we can't......

Who cares about the lowly car radio anymore? Any street hoodlum worth his white powder these days has his eyes on something altogether more high tech. And guess what - its the iPod. Apple's little musical box of tricks is single handedly blamed for the 15% rise in muggings throughout London over the past year. It is old news that the iPods' distinctive white headphones allow criminals to easily target the owners. So logically......

Another success story... Remember we mentioned the rather groovy PledgeBank a little while ago? Well we just found out that this pledge: I will help start the London Association of Chicken Keepers but only if 10 other people in Britain will say they're interested in joining... has resulted in the well named London Chicken Dot Com. This is very cool. It brings to mind Felicity Kendal and Richard Briers in The Good Life (although......

Upper Street in Islington has now been dubbed Technology Mile after finding itself draped in lovely free Wi-Fi according to the electronics industry newspaper EE Times. The wireless mesh is up and running right now so if you're in the area and have any kind of Wi-Fi enabled device you can access the Interweb for free. On top of this the Council is also throwing a bunch of PCs to local businesses (pubs, cafes......