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…
Ever wondered how your doctor stacks up compared to other doctors? Thanks to the Colorado Business Group on Health, you may be able to stop wondering and find out with a few mouse clicks. The nonprofit health organization has just launched a service based on scientific surveys that tells you…
As we learn to integrate each new technological marvel into our lives, one of the inevitable steps along the way is embarrassing yourself in a horrifying new way with it. Shortly after the phone was invented, the drunk dial was invented. It was probably the first person who took naked…
A pair of Hollywood studios said this week that Sam Raimi (of Spider-Man fame) will direct a live-action movie based on the online video game, World of Warcraft, and we can only hope there will be part, even a small one, for our old friend, Leeroy Jenkins. Jenkins, of course,…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @ColoradoFilm: What better place to start off the movie edition of Twitter Tuesday than the official Twitter feed of Colorado’s Office of Film, Television and Media? Follow this…
If you’re a Denver-area podcaster — or someone looking to start a podcast or even just interested in the medium — head down to the Wynkoop tomorrow night and meet some of your fellow ‘casters. There’s no real agenda beyond the group’s general purpose of “lively discussion, hands on practice…
The Denver Public Library is embracing this whole new media/social media thing wholeheartedly. They’re active Twits: @DenverLibrary is the basic account, plus there’s the account for the library’s Fresh City Life program @FreshCityLife and others as well. You an find both of those on Facebook, too: DPL here and Fresh…
Mashable, probably the Internet’s premier website covering social media in all of its forms, is coming to Denver Thursday, August 6 as part of a six-city road trip to promote the Summer of Social Good campaign. The idea is to leverage the power of social media for the benefit of…
Denver-based “everything for nerds” site Nerdivore is taking the great leap into Web 2.0. From now on, you, the nerds of the world, can contribute to Nerdivore. Until now, Nerdivore had been the more-or-less sole province of political columnist, New York Times bestselling author, Denverite and, apparently, giant nerd David…
Yesterday, a Colorado State University team led by civil engineering professor John van de Lindt successfully staged a very large-scale test in Miki City, Japan. They’ve come up with a new approach to building earthquake-proof (or at least more earthquake-proof) buildings, and to see if they’re on the right track,…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @WidepreadPanic: To kick off this very special edition of Twitter Tuesday, dedicated to amping you up for the Mile High Music Fest this next weekend, how about jam-band…
As if you needed any other reason to go watch the office-drone classic Office Space at Red Rocks (details here) other than the simple fact that it’s playing: Tonight’s Film on the Rocks event is doing double duty as a Denver Tweetup. Local Twitter heavyweight @TheBigKlosowski has set up a…
One of the great things about the abundance of data floating around the Internet is that really smart people can “keep score” using information ranging from the simple (like numbers of MySpace/Facebook friends or Twitter followers) to the incredibly detailed and esoteric (any website owner worth his salt can tell…
Back again with three more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @govritter: Lest you retain doubts that Colorado is a state on the cutting edge, that tech is our very lifeblood, need I point out that our own…
When you want to stalk someone but Facebook and parking outside their house for hours with binoculars just aren’t doing it for you, how about buying high-resolution images of their neighborhood as taken by satellites? Sure, you could just get an image off of Google Maps, but if you want…
Everyone loves fireworks (right?), but not everyone loves the hassles inherent in enjoying them. Maybe you’re an agoraphobe, or braving crowds of patriotic drunks sounds like just a little too much effort — or maybe you just got so high that there’s no way you can deal with people right…
Back again with three more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @TCGO1974: The Twitter feed of Kamtin Mohager, aka The Chain Gang of 1974, one of Denver’s up-and-coming musical exports and an active Twit. Currently, Mr. Mohager is…
As someone who’s been blogging since before that was a word — I created and maintained a personal journal-type site back in 1998, using HTML hand-coded in Notepad and uploaded to my server via FTP — I’ve been there for most every change the medium has seen. But one thing…
As noted in a blog earlier today, new media, and social media in particular, played a huge part in disseminating the news of Michael Jackson’s death yesterday. Chances are most of us heard about it directly or indirectly through Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. It’s also worth pointing out that it…
I mentioned this last week in my Twitter Tuesday post, but in case you missed it, there’s a tweetup tonight from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Wynkoop Brewing Company. In other words, a bunch of people who kinda-sorta know each other from Twitter will be hanging out, drinking beer and…
Tonight, Denver-area web designers and developers — and anyone else interested in doing business online, including marketers, writers and mobile/wireless developers — are meeting up at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street, for Refresh Denver’s monthly meeting. Refresh Denver is the local chapter of Refresh, an organization dedicated to promoting good design,…
Back again with three more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @TheDatingDr: If you’re plagued by questions like, “Why can’t I find that special someone?” and “Why do my dates always make excuses for having to go…
