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  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Seven ways Twitter will take your wine lifestyle to the next level

    Imagine a magical tool that would bring together -- in a single location -- myriad information sources that fuel your passion for wine. An online (or mobile, for that matter) destination that collects on your behalf all manner of insightful information designed to keep you up to date -- on a moment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Kyle Dyer dog bite: Kirk Montgomery on Facebook controversy, her condition

    While covering the fallout from the Kyle Dyer/9News on-air dog bite incident, we noted the disappearance of a controversial Facebook post by staffer Kirk Montgomery and wondered if he'd been pressured to remove it. News director Patti Dennis denied any censorship and called such speculation "immoral ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Kyle Dyer dog bite: 9News exec denies muzzling staff, defends coverage

    Yesterday, in a followup to our items about the Kyle Dyer/9News on-air dog bite incident, we wrote about the disappearance of a critical Facebook post by staffer Kirk Montgomery, and wondered if the station had censored it. This post incensed news director Patti Dennis, who categorically denies any ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Here are your 2011 Denver #WebAwards news winners

    ​Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the category we're loosely dubbing "news," which means Westword scribes report on the happenings in these beats, right here on Latest Word. These are the winners only; for a complete list of finalists go here: "Here are your 2011 Denver #W ... More >>

  • News

    November 17, 2011

    2011 Denver #WebAwards winners announced!

    Photos: 2011 Denver #WebAwards party

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    The first Denver-specific Foursquare badge is live with the Westword badge

    Feels good, right?​Foursquare, the location-based check-in app for your smartphone that allows that guy down the hall to be the "Mayor" of his office (congrats, buddy), in addition to dozens of other geo-location-based bells and whistles, released today the first "Badge" for Denver.

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Modmarket needs your help to step up its social media game

    ​While Facebook pages and Twitter handles have become a staple on most restaurants' business cards, Boulder-based Modmarket wants to stand out. Sure, it will continue to use Facebook and Twitter accounts, but they'd be seamlessly integrated into the official website. "The idea is that we'd l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Denver Magazine folds, 5280 acquires its remains: Daniel Brogan on the deal

    ​Say goodbye to Denver Magazine. The publication that convinced Fox31 anchors to turn into skankers on its cover a couple of years back is no more, with rival 5280 acquiring intellectual property like Internet domain names and its Facebook page. Here's 5280 founder, editor and publisher Daniel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2011

    Tweet Up, Show Up

    ​Say goodbye to Denver Magazine. The publication that convinced Fox31 anchors to turn into skankers on its cover a couple of years back is no more, with rival 5280 acquiring intellectual property like Internet domain names and its Facebook page. Here's 5280 founder, editor and publisher Daniel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Twestival Denver 2011: twestivus for the rest of us!

    The Denver Twestival promises to be less dramatic than this photo.​Tweethearts unite! Twitter users and non-Twitter users can network together without a technology barrier at the third annual Denver Twestival on Thursday at Green Spaces in downtown Denver. The Twestival (@twestivaldenver) is o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Charlie Sheen is hiring a social media intern, and we're throwing our hat in the ring

    Winning.​Charlie Sheen has a lot going on right now; giving interviews to anyone with a camera and microphone, getting fired, battling for custody of his kids, going bat-shit crazy and winning, duh. But he's not too busy to capitalize on his social media prowess. Sheen recently set the Guinne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Popchips paying someone $50,000 to put up with Ashton Kutcher

    Popchips seeks VP of pop culture. Get it?​Job market got you down? Sick of begging for jobs for which you're overqualified. Well, perk up: You could be earning $50,000 as the Vice President of Pop Culture for popchips. The chip company recently launched a campaign to find a sidekick for Ashto ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Big Papa's BBQ bumps business using social media

    Johnny MolfettaThe first pop-up, aided by Twitter.​Barbecue is a Southern and warm-weather food. So how is Big Papa's BBQ seeing an increase in sales in the middle of a Colorado winter? In much the same way other businesses are driving revenue, it's utilizing social media. In mid-November, Bi ... More >>

  • News

    January 27, 2011

    Attorney General John Suthers could use some Facebook friends

    Johnny MolfettaThe first pop-up, aided by Twitter.​Barbecue is a Southern and warm-weather food. So how is Big Papa's BBQ seeing an increase in sales in the middle of a Colorado winter? In much the same way other businesses are driving revenue, it's utilizing social media. In mid-November, Bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    I friended the Department of Corrections: A look at Facebook's most boring fan pages

    Now more boring than ever!​Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has been trying to get on Facebook for over a year. Due to issues with the social networking site's indemnity clause -- which says Facebook is not responsible for one user suing another -- Suthers last April ordered all state ag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Facebook and John Suthers, Colorado attorney general, make nice, clearing way for state pages

    John Suthers.​Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is embracing Facebook nearly a year after the state essentially unfriended the massive social network. The agreement between the AG's office and Mark Zuckerberg's operation means state agencies, including Suthers's, can belatedly join the 21 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Next Big Sound: Billboard's new "Social 50" chart powered by Boulder music startup

    ​In October, we profiled the Boulder start-up Next Big Sound, which seemed poised to shake the struggling music industry by using social media sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter to discover break-out bands. Now that Billboard has unveiled its new "Social 50" chart powered by Next Big Sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Big Papa's BBQ uses Facebook and Twitter to sell ribs

    Photo: Johnny MolfettaBig Papa's BBQ is all up in your Twitter.​If a truck pulling a large barbecue smoker pulls up next to you on the street, you might be in for some free food. As part of its new social media campaign, Big Papa's BBQ will be sending a mobile emissary to several locations aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    We had a party and tweeted about it: Westword #WebAwards winners!

    ​If you were there last night, thank you for coming to the first-ever Westword Web Awards party at Casselman's, 2620 Walnut Street. The room swelled (see full slideshow from the Web Awards) to about 400 bloggers, photographers, shameless self-promoters and artists, who tweeted about the thing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Foursquare co-founder encourages users to wage war on Chipotle

    ​In case you haven't heard, homegrown chain Chipotle Mexican Grill is offering a Facebook deal this weekend whereby if you "check in" using Facebook Places Mobile on your smartphone and show your phone screen, proving that you're not a big, fat liar to the eye-rolling workhorse behind the regi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Ten of the most ridiculous Foursquare mayorships in Denver

    ​Drummer Crawford Philleo is the Foursquare mayor of the bathroom at Gabor's on Thirteenth Avenue because he was mad that another user, Colfax J, took over the mayorship of Gabor's itself. Funny. But not as funny as some of the other places with Foursquare mayors.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Social Media Sobriety Test: Boulder's Webroot tests if you're too drunk to Facebook, Twitter

    A Flickr photo.​Remember when, after one too many tequila shots, you confessed your undying love all over your ex's Facebook wall? Or how you posted a YouTube vid of a certain projectile-vomiting incident right after it happened? Or how your drunken tweets ended up on Text From Last Night -- t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Tim Tebow attracts 33,000 Twitter followers in a week -- and gives them back nothing

    Tim Tebow.​Last week, we told you about Tim Tebow launching a Facebook page and a Twitter feed -- a move that prompted a parody by Maxim's Tauntr site featuring such items as "Tim Tebow likes Crying," to which Jesus Christ offered a thumbs-up. If only Tebow had come up with something as entert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Tim Tebow now on Facebook & Twitter: Will he join "Don't have sex until marriage" group?

    ​Tim Tebow has launched a Facebook page and Twitter account. Yes, this is news. This is Tim Tebow we're talking about here. Tebow (or his PR team) hasn't done much with the sites yet, but thanks to the smartasses at Tauntr, Maxim magazine's sports blog, we can see what his page might look lik ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    Play Time

    ​Tim Tebow has launched a Facebook page and Twitter account. Yes, this is news. This is Tim Tebow we're talking about here. Tebow (or his PR team) hasn't done much with the sites yet, but thanks to the smartasses at Tauntr, Maxim magazine's sports blog, we can see what his page might look lik ... More >>

  • News

    May 6, 2010

    Denver has high hopes for a new social-media policy.

    ​Tim Tebow has launched a Facebook page and Twitter account. Yes, this is news. This is Tim Tebow we're talking about here. Tebow (or his PR team) hasn't done much with the sites yet, but thanks to the smartasses at Tauntr, Maxim magazine's sports blog, we can see what his page might look lik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    John Suthers's office clarifies Facebook stance

    ​Even if you wanted to, you couldn't be friends with Colorado Attorney General John Suthers's office -- at least not on Facebook. And the office has recommended that any other state agency that doesn't already have a Facebook page hold off for a while. "There could be conflicts with state law ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Five ways social media has changed us -- like allowing us to socialize pants-free

    Pants: Now totally optional​Over at the excellent social-media site Mashable, there's an intelligent and thought-provoking post about the ways social media has changed us. And while its conclusions about social media's impact on our society included important points about information availabil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Social-media Frankenstein

    ​Every day, I use multiple social media services to work, stay in touch with friends and keep up to date with what's going on in the world. Half an hour on MySpace here, twenty minutes of Facebook there, and a quick look at Twitter every hour -- it adds up. So, until the future I predicted h ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2009

    Shoe-In

    ​Every day, I use multiple social media services to work, stay in touch with friends and keep up to date with what's going on in the world. Half an hour on MySpace here, twenty minutes of Facebook there, and a quick look at Twitter every hour -- it adds up. So, until the future I predicted h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 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. Reall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 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 in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 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.

  • Music

    January 22, 2009

    Millionaires

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

  • Music

    January 15, 2009

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

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

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    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 pho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 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 da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

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

    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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2008

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

    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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2008

    Twittering an F-bomb during the DNC

    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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    Mile High Makeout: Missing In Action

    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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2008

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

    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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2008

    Redline Defiance Breaks Up... or Not

    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 s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    Cops in MySpace

    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 s ... More >>

  • Music

    August 30, 2007

    Move Over, MySpace

    With friends like these...

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2007

    Woman's Best Friend

    With friends like these...

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2006

    Where There's Smoke, There's Ire

    With friends like these...

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    Lost in MySpace

    It's as easy as falling off a blog.

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