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News Nuggets: 24 July 2009

Dug up fresh, daily. BUREAUCRATS GONE WILD: Boulder County management has had to have the talk with employees: "New policy requires county workers to get...

Sen. Brophy: Pshaw on that global warming

As he bike-rides the great terrain of the state this summer, Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, is twittering. Last night he was inspired to share...

Susan Orlean, the Aspen bear and the Twitter

New Yorker writer and celebrated author of the Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, tweeted that her house in Aspen was invaded by a bear. The...

Journalism chronicles: Gannett down; Wikipedia video up

As rumors swirl that giant newspaper publisher Gannett may layoff thousands next week, Wikipedia prepares to add video. How are the two related? Wikipedia current-event-entry news is perhaps the most immediate relative in the journalism family to the amazing Twitter coverage of the Iranian election protests, that's how.

DIY news: Iran’s fuzzy, chopped-up, blurry media revolution

This on-the-ground fuzzy YouTube was posted from what looks like Tehran today by "mz3638," with the unsearchable date-edition title: "18062009003." So the Iranian streets are alive. The protests continue. Or maybe not. YouTube commenters are asking what everyone watching it for news value wants to know: When was the video actually shot? And less urgent: What does the chant mean?

Twitter allows Iranian protests to continue, free speech questions arise

Twitter is facilitating democracy in Iran! The media is reveling in the idea that the tiny communication technology is calling forth democracy in one prong of the "Axis of Evil," accomplishing in mere days in Iran what our military failed to accomplish for years next door in Iraq. These events beg a question some analysts have been asking since the dawn of the so-called new economy, when the internet and digital communications became integrated with the for-profit privately held universe. The question goes something like: Who will guarantee free expression now that we depend on businesses to transmit those expressions?

Tweet of the Week: Republican old dogs learn new tricks on...

Larimer County Republicans aren't conceding cyberspace in the 2010 campaign season. In addition to its old-school coffee-shop breakfasts and straw-poll shrimp boils, the party is determined to get its voters up on that thar social media, including teh Tweeter! For real.

Margarita pitchman Schaffer hawks family blend, 140 characters at a time

Former Republican congressman and erstwhile Senate candidate Bob Schaffer has taken his passion for margaritas a step further on the ethernet, inaugurating a Twitter account for Coyote Gold. That's right, the 37-proof "Microbrew of Margaritas" is now dispensing tweets via the ubiquitous, fast-growing social networking tool. Here's one of the first, posted shortly after the account went live Tuesday night:

Tweet of the Week: Is our children learning?

tweet-of-the-week-dumb-kids1 "Putting out" dumb kids?

Tweet of the Week: No anti-Semitism here

With more local politicos using the microblogging service Twitter to surreptitiously feed the rumor mill, rally supporters and bash opponents in 140 characters or less I thought it might be fun to highlight the week's best, worst or funniest message, known as a "tweet." And our inaugural post is a doozy too.
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