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Lightning Strike Tweet of the Week: Sen. Brophy nails it

By | 12.17.09 | 9:51 am

Colorado Republican politicians are great tweeters. Hats off to them. Their tweets are fresh and raw and angry. Their tweets make national news! This morning one of our favorite of the local twiterati, State Sen. Greg Brophy–…

Denver Post embraces the Twitter, succombs to ridiculousness

By | 11.13.09 | 1:13 pm

Colorado State Sen. Dave Schultheis set the mediasphere alight this week with another one of his outrageous comments, born as usual from his deliberate submersion in the far-right echochamber of Obama-hating free-market-cultish media that features Fox News, WorldNet Daily,…

GOP congressman: Snowe voted to ‘turn America into France’

By | 10.13.09 | 3:52 pm

Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) brings the heat on Twitter, offering one of what will be many friendly fire attacks on Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine).

Tweet of the Week: Obama is NOT the GOD of State Sen. Schultheis

By | 09.30.09 | 4:41 pm

Like many of us, State Sen. Dave Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, shares his daily reading with his followers on the Twitter. This week the lawmaker highlights his browsings at World Net Daily and the Drudge Report via the

Tweet those health-care reform questions to Rep. Coffman

By | 08.24.09 | 5:37 pm

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, an Aurora Republican, will be answering health-care reform questions submitted to the CBS4 Twitter account, the Denver television station tweets. Get those thumbs busy starting at 6 p.m.:

Dueling health care reform rallies descend on Fort Collins, target Markey

By | 07.29.09 | 1:31 pm

Accompanied by a fife-and-drum combo, two opposing groups are gathered in Old Town Fort Collins over the noon hour to try to persuade U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey either to support or oppose health care reform legislation currently before Congress.…

News Nuggets: 24 July 2009

By | 07.24.09 | 3:20 pm

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BUREAUCRATS GONE WILD: Boulder County management has had to have the talk with employees: “New policy requires county workers to get approval from department heads before sending “tweets” on Twitter — short text messages…

Sen. Brophy: Pshaw on that global warming

By | 07.22.09 | 1:42 pm

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 on the topic of climate science. He doesn’t want the state to spend money on studies…

Susan Orlean, the Aspen bear and the Twitter

By | 07.06.09 | 4:02 pm

New Yorker writer and celebrated author of the Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, tweeted that her house in Aspen was invaded by a bear. The Rocky Mountain bruin reportedly got into her fridge and ate things, including…

Journalism chronicles: Gannett down; Wikipedia video up

By | 06.30.09 | 12:35 pm

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.