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…
The latest trend on the Internet is local, and new media juggernaut The Huffington Post is wasting no time leading the charge into desirable local markets. Not too long ago, the site launched its first local foray with the Chicago edition of the Huffington Post (around the same time that…
I’m pretty sure when DARPA was inventing the Internet back in the late ’60s, organizing squirt gun fights and documenting them via tools such as YouTube and blogs were exactly what they had in mind (well, that and porn). Now Denver residents can fully reap the fruits of what DARPA…
If you have questions — and I know you have questions — AskColorado, an online information service provided by Colorado libraries, is there to help. The 24/7 (holidays excluded) web service puts you in touch with a librarian via a chat interface similar to your basic instant-messenger client, and lets…
If you’ve got a hot date but just can’t decide what to wear, Coathangr is here to help. Coathangr is, in the words of their beta slogan, “Social media for your pants” — although co-founder Dave Wiskus says that will probably change to the less catchy but also less-apt-to-be-misinterpreted “Social…
Back again with three more great Twits to follow (sure, that sounds insulting, but “Tweeters” just sounds stupid) for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @psmyth12 and @champbailey: I know it’s the height of baseball season, but I’m a football guy, so…
*Okay, asking actual people is probably a better idea. But this is a tech blog. Computers. Is there anything they can’t do? Each day brings us closer to the time when that answer is truly “no,” and today brings us to a particularly momentous milestone: the day we no longer…
Zoning code is not sexy. It is not fun. And no one cares about it until it stops them from building the deck they always dreamed of or allows a developer to build a combination McDonald’s/hi-rise condo that blocks the view out of their bedroom window — i.e., when it’s…
Is the Twitpocalypse nigh? Is the end of Facebook right around the corner? And if so, how on earth are you going to fill eight hours a day at work? The horror! I enjoy a good dose of doomsaying as much as anyone — hell, more than most. But a…
Recently, a Denver music scene personality (who asked to remain anonymous, for obvious reason) reached out to me to tell me his tale of getting dumped via Twitter. It’s as tragic as it sounds. The guy didn’t get dumped via direct message (Twitter’s version of e-mail, a private, two-way communication)…
Back again with three more great Twits to follow (sure, that sounds insulting, but Tweeters just sounds stupid) for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. TweetDenver: TweetDenver is a Twitter aggregator — they seek out and reTweet others’ cool stuff. In other…
Psst: Want to know a secret? Shenae Von Liebt did, so she asked a few friends via Twitter to tell her theirs. “I was reading one of my Post Secret books while waiting in church’s parking lot,” she recalls. “I was bored with it and tweeted for everyone to text…
If you’re in a high-risk profession that requires you to meet with lots of clients one on one (say, prostitute or pizza-delivery guy), or perhaps just sure you’ll be abducted or murdered at any moment, Face File has just the thing to help you feel a little safer — or…
Editor’s note: Starting today, Westword contributor Cory Casciato will be blogging regularly for The Latest Word about the local tech and social-media scene. Feel free to e-mail him with links, story ideas, hate mail, and slices of congratulatory pizza. If you’re not on Twitter yet, you’re one of about seven…
The middle finger is one of those wondrous little quirks that make life worth living. How is it that a single finger, sticking straight up, can have such an impact on us? Stick up a ring finger or pointer and nobody cares. But when that guy in between them comes…
These days, the Twitter backlash is powerful and vociferous. Today, a colleague of ours coined a new term — “twate” — which means, “To have disdain for anything having to do with Twitter.” But while there are many, many uses of Twitter that are worth, ahem, twatting, we’ve discovered one…
Here’s a new way to amuse yourself while not working: TextsFromLastNight.com, which collects text messages that probably shouldn’t have been sent, but were. Odds are strong that an enormous percentage of the submissions are fictional — the equivalent of those vintage Penthouse letters that began, “I never thought something like…
Move over, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. Surrogate motherhood isn’t just for celebrities anymore. Or humans. Or the living. Last May, a tornado cut a swath through much of Windsor, Colorado, and among its victims was a badly interested mare whose ovaries were harvested shortly before it was euthanized…
