Subject: Social Software and Tagging

• Woman's Best Friend

  January 23, 2007

• MySpace Melo

  January 19, 2007

• MyResults

  November 7, 2006

• Where There's Smoke, There's Ire

  September 13, 2006

• The Brotherhood of Dae Han Breaks Up

  January 12, 2008

• Cops in MySpace

  March 11, 2008

• Obama Conspiracy Theories...with Eggs

  April 1, 2008

• Redline Defiance Breaks Up... or Not

  April 17, 2008

• Shhh! The Bad Boys of Machine Gun Blues Playing in Globeville Tonight

  May 30, 2008

• Spam a Lot, Pay a Lot

  June 17, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: Missing In Action

  June 20, 2008

• Facebook, Slavery, and Bob Schaeffer's Floundering Campaign

  August 6, 2008

• Shmuck: Bob and Justin Schaffer Come Undone

  August 7, 2008

• Live from the MySpace Café, DNC headquarters for ass-kissing and flesh-pressing

  August 25, 2008

• Live from the MySpace Café, DNC headquarters for ass-kissing and flesh-pressing

  August 26, 2008

• Rocky Mountain News plan to Twitter another funeral canceled after staff complaint

  September 18, 2008

• Twittering an F-bomb during the DNC

  September 18, 2008

• Bob Schaffer's Facebook page -- way more boring than his son's

  October 8, 2008

• DeAngelo Starnes is "recovering from media rape"

  October 30, 2008

• Chinese Democracy leaked. Axl can't be stoked.

  Senator, we knew GN'R. GN'R was a friend of ours. You're no GN'R. Less than a week before its official release date, Chinese Democracy has reportedly leaked been posted on Guns N' Roses' MySpace page. Yep. The full album. Yesterday Today. After a bazillion years of build up, that's it. Just like that. As we write this, savvy internet users the world over are no doubt making up their own minds about whether whatever the hell Axl has been working on all these years when he wasn't under the kni

  November 19, 2008

• Mile High Makeout: New friends, take one

  Every week, I receive several friend requests on MySpace. About 70% of them are from siphylitic spambots, masquerading as hot, lonely, Russian jailbait. Another 20% are from bands I've never heard of, who live in cities I've never heard of, and make music I've never heard of. The final 10% come from bands that live right here in Colorado. And a shocking percentage of these are completely new to me.

  December 11, 2008

• Hear from the man behind KBFR, Boulder's pirate radio station

  Yesterday's blog "Pirate Radio Station KBFR Back in Boulder" provided info about an unlicensed radio signal using call letters that date back for the better part of a decade. In that piece, the main commentator was Rob Smoke, a former Boulder City Council candidate who's producing a regular talk show for the outlet, even though he's never met nor spoken to the person in charge of the venture. Today, meet the anonymous operator himself, who provided information via e-mail in the following mini-

  December 12, 2008

• Publicist forces Lance Armstrong's pregnant girlfriend to take down her Facebook and Myspace profiles

  Once upon a time, Anna Hansen was your average blond, pretty, sorta-outdoorsy Colorado girl working as a waitress at Rio Grande in Boulder while attending CU. Four years later, after living abroad for a spell, she gets a job with a non-profit in Vail, takes up competitive mountain biking, starts dating the seemingly sterile cyclist Lance Armstrong and becomes astoundingly pregnant! Hooray! But there is an evil character in this fairy tale - the sinister publicist who forced the vulnerable Han

  December 26, 2008

• Baji wants to announce your calls

  If you're looking for some new music and in need of a new ring tone for your phone, have a listen to Baji. This pop/rock outfit reminds me a lot of the Heyday: similar radio-ready sound, same big, soaring choruses and hook-filled tunes. As a promotion, they're offering free ringtones to Verizon phone users who embed one of the two available songs into their MySpace profile. And whether you like them well enough to use them on your phone and MySpace or not, it's definitely worth a listen for fan

  January 7, 2009

• Mile High Makeout: Making Connections

  Nearly every day, I receive an email, instant message, MySpace note, Facebook missive, text or snail mail package from a local musician or band, sheepishly offering up their creations. Some of these folks want my help in getting their music out to more people, while others simply want to hear what I have to say about their efforts. In almost every case, the offering is accompanied by an apology, as if I'm somehow being inconvenienced. I want to take this opportunity to say, once and for all, tha

  January 15, 2009

• Vices I Admire on the hunt for new bassist

  Angry, artsy rockers Vices I Admire has been banging around northern Colorado for a few years now, and has a fair amount of local acclaim, based on its live shows, an EP and the song "Monster," which has appeared on a couple of compilations. On its MySpace page, the band compares itself to Incubus, Deftones and Mars Volta, and those comparisons might not be far off. However, I also hear a bit of the unhinged creativity that distinguish locals like Yerkish. I have yet to catch the band live, but

  January 18, 2009

• Revelations in new Facebook and MySpace study: no duh

  The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study last week that found young people are more likely to use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace than old people. In other breaking news, milk mostly comes from cows and water is mostly wet.

  January 22, 2009

• The Rocky Mountain News headline of the day

  Remember the hullabaloo stirred up by a Rocky Mountain News reporter's mega-awkward attempt to Twitter at a three-year old's funeral? Reporter Lynn Bartels certainly does. Earlier today, she posted an item to the Rocky's Live From the Legislature blog about state senator Dave Schultheis getting into the Twitter trend. The banner affixed to her item? "Some Advice: Don't Twitter at a Funeral." That's one tweet headline.

  January 29, 2009

• Denver no longer has to wonder: What Would Molly Brown Tweet?

  Historical Tweets, a website that imagines what historical figures -- from George Washington to Urkel -- would have tweeted on Twitter, recently waded into familiar territory with the above offering between El Capitano and Denver's Molly Brown. So one burning question has been answered. But here's another: What Would DIA's Blue Mustang Tweet? Those seeking clues can check out Joel Warner's blog "DIA Promo Photo Kicks Ass of All Other Airport Promo Photos" and Jared Jacang Maher's blog "Don't

  February 11, 2009

• Rowboat, row me to my shore

  Photo: Ian McDonnellThanks to the magic of MySpace friendship, I was recently hipped to Rowboat, the beautifully melancholy project from Sam McNitt of Blue Million Miles. I haven't had the chance to catch the act live yet, but if the tracks currently streaming on the MySpace profile are any indication, very tasty things are to come. Built around McNitt's sorrow-hardened voice, confessional lyrics and understated strumming, Rowboat's songs surge and swell with sad and resolute grandeur. Since sad

  February 18, 2009

• The debut of News on the Deuce: Were they trying to make it so funny?

  The Deuce's new logo. The idea of Channel 2 rechristening itself as "The Deuce" -- a popular slang term for bowel movements -- in a strained attempt to woo a more youthful audience was mighty amusing. Still, even this decision couldn't adequately prepare viewers for the off-the-rails catastrophe that was last night's launch of News on the Deuce, the outlet's evening newscast. The show, which was moved to 7 p.m. -- two hours earlier than before, so that it would no longer compete directly with t

  March 31, 2009

• Westword seeks online intern, because we hear this web thing is huge

  Attention college students (and overbearing mothers of college students): Westword is looking for an online-journalism intern to contribute to westword.com. The intern will focus on growing the site's multimedia presence, specifically with audio and video, but will contribute to all aspects of the web site, including writing and editing content, shooting and editing photos, and using social media to boost the site's traffic and influence. Candidates should have experience editing audio, shoo

  March 31, 2009

• Channel 4 to Twitter -- gallbladder surgery?

  Chop, chop. Who isn't jumping on the Twitter bandwagon? Last week, we told you about the Boulder Police Department's new Twitter feed. Now, Channel 4 is boasting about Dr. Dave Hnida, the station's medical expert, Twittering the gallbladder surgery of a seven-year-old girl. This gimmick, which can be followed live beginning at 11 a.m. tomorrow, April 14, opens up new possibilities for Twittering coverage. Coming soon: Dr. Dave tweets Jim Benemann's colonoscopy! Of course, that's not the way th

  April 13, 2009

• The suit is slingin' Spud Bros. spuds!

  Like 50 is the new 30, Twitter is the new talking. And here's yet another story about how one tweet put something into motion, so that a former venture capitalist is now spending his afternoon working the fryer at Spud Bros., located at 2010 10th Street in Boulder:Brad Feld is an entrepreneur, the co-founder of the Foundry Group, a venture capitalist firm. But he was also once a lowly employee at a restaurant in Dallas called Potatoes, Etc.

  April 14, 2009

• Millionaires

  Tuesday, January 27, Marquis Theater, 1-866-468-7621.

  January 22, 2009

• Jonathan Coulton is what happens when a computer geek starts making music

  January 15, 2009

• Club 303's MySpace page was hijacked

  January 15, 2009

• With help from the feds, a Denver scientist helps Second Life go nuclear

  September 18, 2008

• Pranking the MySpace Presidential Campaign Trail

  Check out my comments section: Clinton and Obama are close personal friends of mine.

  October 25, 2007

• Move Over, MySpace

  With friends like these...

  August 30, 2007

• On the Download

  Linking you to the best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives.

  May 10, 2007

• 'Space Case

  MySpace can be soul-sucking, but it has its upsides.

  April 26, 2007

• Free Love!

  Why should a pastor pay for gay sex when men in Denver are already on their knees?

  November 9, 2006

• Various Artists

  Snakes on a Plane: The Album (Decaydance/New Line)

  August 17, 2006

• Lost in MySpace

  It's as easy as falling off a blog.

  March 9, 2006

• Request these songs while you drinko por Cinco

  April 30, 2009

• Who are the tweetest of the Denver Post's Twitterers?

  Lots of news organizations, including this one, have embraced Twitter -- but few have done so with as much vigor (and volume) as the Denver Post. The broadsheet's Twitter page lists more than twenty feeds specific to the paper, with some contributed by departments or topics (e.g. crime news and politics) and others from specific individuals -- among them, business writer Andy Vuong and editorial writer Chuck Plunkett. But most of them are purely utilitarian, plugging articles and the like. Ind

  April 30, 2009

• Mayor Hickenlooper has too many Facebook friends

  Goodbye, friend. If you think it's time-consuming to maintain your own Facebook page, imagine how Mayor John Hickenlooper must feel. The guy's got nearly 5,000 "friends" -- or at least he will until the end of the day Tuesday, when they will all become simply "fans." "I am deleting this personal profile at the end of the day. My apologies to anyone who has sent me a message or a friend request that I have not responded to. Please visit me on my new fan page," the mayor posted on his Facebook p

  June 30, 2009

• Boulder County: Taking the "social" out of "social media"

  ​The Boulder Daily Camera reported today that Boulder County has installed rules covering the use of social media by employees (CBS4 Denver also blogged about it). The gist of the rules seems to be requiring permission from a department head to post anything to Twitter, Facebook, etc. Really? Boulder County department heads don't have anything better to do than approve employees' tweets? Seriously, if you require the approval of a department head to post anything to social media, why

  July 24, 2009

• Twitter trying your patience? Join the eSwarm instead

  ​If you dipped your toes into Twitter but found the whole thing a disorganized, confusing mess, have a look at the just-launched social networking service eSwarm. The idea is to take the best features of existing social networking service such as Twitter and Facebook, streamline them and apply a technology based on "swarm theory" to create, if the company's plans bear fruit, the Next Big Thing. "This is all about the conversation. This is all about the technology," says Matt Etlinger, co-

  August 12, 2009