Fellow Denver pub Westword contacted me yesterday about my mini-obsession with that Tetris building. You know, the one that had windows broken out to form Tetris pieces.

Joel Warner was working on a story for Westword's blog about the Internet. He used the story to point out that while some people are trying to "clean up" the blogosphere, which he describes as a mess, chock full of factually questionable information, often people just don't care.

Very true. Still worth doing< I think, when it benefits your readers.

On Tuesday, Crecente posted his Tetris photo on his video game blog, Kotaku. That image looks very similar to those posted on December 3 by DenverInfill as part of a story about a new Embassy Suites tower going up on the property.

This led to yesterday being the "day of hell," says Gonzalez. About two dozen pending prints of his Tetris vandalism photo were canceled. A photo editor called to warn him about manipulating photos. He received numerous angry e-mails and calls from strangers — and a couple of death threats. Through it all, he maintains his innocence. "I didn't mess with the window panes. It does look funky, but I took the shot seven months ago. A lot changes in seven months," he says, adding he has the negatives to prove it. "The logic is, why if it's fake, would I have given him the address? And I wish he had contacted me before he put up the post."

Both Gonzalez and Crecente are amazed at the online clamor generated by their blogs . "Who cares in the end?" asks Gonzalez. "It's just getting somewhat ridiculous."

Crecente agrees. "I don't like being in position of debunking a picture. The weird thing is, who cares if he did fake it? I still think it's a neat image." - Joel Warner

Indeed, I'm actually playing around with the idea of buying a copy... if he'd sell it to me. Brian Crecente

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