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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...

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...

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

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.

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 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?

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.

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:

"Putting out" dumb kids?

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.