If you need to scratch your nerd itch tonight, Ignite Denver 5, at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street, starting at 7 p.m., would be a fine place to do it. If you aren’t familiar with the Ignite concept, it challenges a ragtag bunch of “experts” to present their expertise in five…
I got an intriguing e-mail yesterday from my buddy David Thomas, a local syndicated videogame columnist and professional contemplator of all things related to joysticks. “I am meeting the Nintendo van tomorrow at 1 if you want to come along,” he wrote cryptically. I’m not a big videogame player, but…
Last week, we asked actual twits why we should follow them. We received many amusing responses from lots of people, including an unreasonable amount from one Mr. Cargo (@defconqueso) who gets th enod this week for both his dogged persistence in winning us over, and the fact he’s actually a…
Colorado State grad student Greg Schroll has taken the idea of the spherical robot — basically a robot contained in a ball, as seen above — and made it a reality. Well, not quite a reality, but close enough for Schroll to be named one of Popular Mechanics’ 10 Most…
Want to know why the police are congregating outside the house down the block? Chances are that if you wander down there and ask, they’ll just growl at you to head home and not to worry about it. But get online and ask Lieutenant Matthew Murray via Twitter. He says…
Move over swine flu, the latest epidemic to hit Denver is an outbreak of ghosts. Granted, most are made of rags, have tissue for brains and dangle from the low-hanging branches of maple trees, but the photo above proves that more mischievous spirits do exist. Yes, ghosts must be real,…
This week, we asked actual twits why we should follow them. And among the many, many amusing responses we got, the tweet by Lauren Cook (@laurencook) took the prize for its timely nods to two great figures in western history. Find out what she tweeted to sell us, as well…
At first glance, the Internet and booze may not seem all that similar. One is a powerful psychoactive drug and delightful beverage, the other is an information superhighway. One comes in a bottle; the other a series of tubes. And I am pretty sure the Internet doesn’t give you hangovers…
This Friday, October 2 marks the launch of boco, a one-day conference in Boulder that combines food, music and tech. Featuring panels with names such as “Handheld Awesome Detectors” to “Autotune your brand?,” plus speakers that include everyone from an artisan chocolate maker to a “cyborg anthropolog[ist]” and hosted happy…
We’ve been doing the Twitter Tuesday thing long enough to fill your feed up with some interesting Twits — so we’ve decided to open things up a bit and have some fun. We’re harnessing the power of the Internet’s latest and greatest darling to answer the big questions in life,…
You want to know what the next social media service that will be eating all of your time will be? All of them. Or rather, all of them that you want, in whatever proportions you like. Recently, Twitter announced a couple of big integrations — one with MySpace and another…
It doesn’t get the same kind of attention hot social-media darlings such as Twitter and Facebook garner these days, but Craigslist is still a pretty decent social network — especially if you enjoy the WTF side of life, as I do. Everyone knows about the classic “Best of Craigslist” section,…
Today, former Westword fellow Melanie Asmar, now writing for the Colorado Daily, brings us a story whose time has come — an attempt to bring back the Boulder Mall Crawl, a Halloween bash on the city’s Pearl Street Mall that proudly celebrated revelry and goofiness until being shut down in…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @MileHighSocialMediaClub: If you’re reading this, you must be fairly interested in social media, right? Or at least very, very bored and possibly cripplingly lonely. Either way, the…
Forget those so-called social-media games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, which are really just a way to junk up your friends’ feeds and irritate them. Someone’s figured out a way to make social media into something like a nightlife MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game). Think Twitter meets World of Warcraft,…
Government 2.0 is just around the corner. This week, the White House announced the launch of the government’s very own app store, a place for various arms of the fedeal government to get their assorted IT needs met. It’s an effort to streamline and lower the cost of said IT…
My fiancee and I are looking for a place to live in Denver. Nothing fancy, just a one- or two-bedroom rental, hopefully with a dishwasher and a closet big enough for her shoes, which is to say a closet the size of a Chrysler minivan. Yesterday, she stumbled on an…
The Denver Center Theater Company is reaching out to audiences with a new tool — YouTube. Using the interactive functions of the ubiquitous video-hosting service, which allow people to click on elements within a video to go to a link such as another video, the DCTC has created a choose-your-own-adventure…
While ignorant outsiders are busy slandering Twitter as a place to talk about what you ate for lunch, the social networking service is quickly becoming the place to organize informal fundraisers. These aren’t fancy nonprofits, with their fancy high overhead and administration costs. Instead, they’re just regular folks using technology…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @satsight: Growing up obsessed with space travel led directly to my current fascination with the ongoing march of technology. The collision of these things makes me all…
Wind energy has been a hot commodity in the state for ten years or more now, but a new source of energy — geothermal — is about to get a chance to make its mark in the near future. The Denver Business Journal is reporting that the BLM is set…
The Governor’s Office of Information Technology has joined up with Connected Nation, a nonprofit group trying to create a map of broadband access — and those areas that still can’t get it — throughout the country. If you’ve currently got broadband access, you can test your speed and tell the…
