These days, a lot of people spend all their time figuring out how they can become Internet-famous. But Elizabeth’s Christina Jahnz managed to do so in seconds — by revealing that her butt had been impaled by a pole when she crashed her car while texting. There’s been a lot…
UPDATE: WOLF Sanctuary has filed for bankruptcy. In a message, the organization’s executive director, Shelley Coldiron, assured supporters that the sanctuary would not go out of business or have to give up its animals. “I ask our many supporters and followers to continue their loyalty to our cause and our…
The Twitter hashtag #ThrowbackThursday has become a favorite for a very good reason: With all the lousy news taking place now, it’s reassuring and entertaining to turn back the clock once a week. Plenty of Denver tweeters agree, regularly sharing #ThrowbackThursday posts featuring fascinating, charming or funny photos from the…
Purge: Anarchy, the sequel to the surprise horror hit from last year, arrived in theaters last month, and at this point, it’s pretty much run its course. But rumors of a real-life Colorado Purge beginning at 6:30 p.m. on September 6 — during which, presumably, laws would be suspended for…
In our post 9/11 world, it doesn’t seem like a very good idea to encourage regular people to venture out onto the runway at a major commercial airport, but that isn’t stopping the folks at Denver International Airport, who created the #LoveDIA contest on Twitter. “Want to take a #selfie…
Could women with a sexy Facebook profile photo be hurting their chances to be hired for a job by another female? That’s among the implications of a new study by Elizabeth Daniels, currently an assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. The analysis, entitled “The Price of…
Last month, we told you about Jeanna Hoch, who went public after Facebook suspended her account due to the presence of breastfeeding photos — images the site explicitly allows. Hoch’s page was reinstated after the media circulated her story. But she was temporarily blocked from posting new content again amid…
Denver’s Jeanna Hoch wasn’t naive when she decided to share a photo of her breastfeeding her baby as her Facebook profile pic. She did so explicitly to make a statement about a society that tends to look at this body part only from an erotic viewpoint as opposed to seeing…
The World Cup literally kicked off yesterday in Sao Palo, Brazil with a kick made by a man with complete paralysis of the lower trunk. Juliano Pinto, 29, used a robo-suit that let him use his brainwaves to control his normally unresponsive lower limbs in order to make contact with…
How does a new Twitter account get followers fast? One surefire way: Give away money. Yesterday, the folks behind Hidden Cash Boulder tweeted clues to the whereabouts of envelopes containing $40 under the hashtag @HiddenCashCO. Now, less than 24 hours later, the feed has more than 2,700 followers, and that…
Since 2010, University of Colorado Denver doctoral student Christopher Sibona has researched Facebook via studies focusing on unfriending — including the phenomenon of unfriending harming actual friendships. As for his latest two studies, they include a look at unfriending behavior that lists the sixteen kinds of people most likely to…
Are all cab rides created equal? Not in Denver. As described in our current cover story, “Street Fight — Are Denver Cab Companies Ready for an Uber Bumpy Ride?,” unique state rules mean no two Denver taxi companies are alike in how they operate and what they charge riders. Add…
When the 33-year-old Denverite Jeff Pickles collected 3,333,360 points on a vintage Pac-Man machine at LoDo’s 1up arcade bar, he became one of only a handful of gamers to nab a perfect Pac-Man run, as reported in our current cover story, “Leader of the Pac.” He has photographic proof and…
Last May, we posted about a University of Colorado study that found May-December couples are seldom rich or hot. Afterward, Brandon Wade, CEO of Seeking Arrangement, billed as “the world’s largest Sugar Daddy website,” offered a rebuttal. His sugar daddies are rich and hot, he insisted. Now, Seeking Arrangement has…
A search for the phrase “bikini bridge” on the 9News Facebook page this morning scores no hits — meaning that it’s presumably been scrubbed out of existence. But there was enough hubbub about coverage of what’s now seen as an Internet hoax to convince young women that emaciation is in…
Most celebrities tend to use Twitter for a variety of mostly promotional purposes. But yesterday, singer LeeAnn Rimes and comedian Kevin Nealon tweeted about a far more important topic — a plane crash they’d witnessed in Aspen that killed one person (craft co-pilot Sergio Emilio Carranza Brabat) and injured two…
In a post last month, we told you about a new website called CommunityCam, which planned to use crowd-sourcing techniques to document and map all the security cameras in public areas throughout Denver and other nearby areas. The site’s founder mainly portrayed such surveillance devices as good things — no…
Footage from local TV news broadcasts seldom goes viral unless somebody drops an f-bomb. But a 9News video featuring anchor Kyle Clark managed to inspire a Buzzfeed feature and make a splash on Reddit simply by offering an “editorial” begging viewers to stop sending in photos of their snowy patios…
Are you disturbed at the prevalence of video cameras that seem to be recording your every move? Or do you see such devices as enhancing safety, because they may dissuade predators from committing crimes in areas where they’re present or help bring them to justice if they do so? The…
Last week, the Denver Post announced six layoffs — the sort of downsizing that’s all too common at daily newspapers. But many online news outlets are struggling, too, thanks to funding difficulties and more. Against this backdrop, the education website EdNews Colorado is not only growing its small staff, but…
Last week, following a Twitter debate about plagiarism with members of the media, the Denver Police Department took part in its first-ever Reddit AMA, meaning “Ask Me Anything.” The online conversation featured a large number of questions about marijuana — so many that the department has scheduled another Reddit AMA…
Yesterday, in a post about a Twitter debate about plagiarism and social media between the Denver Police Department and media members, we noted that DPD chief of staff Lieutenant Matt Murray would be taking part last night in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session. The chat went off as…
