New Media Index: Debate Over Downtown Mosque Continues to Dominate Blogs' Shared Links

The proposed mosque and community center in downtown Manhattan near Ground Zero continued to dominate the list of news links shared by bloggers, while Google’s introduction of the ability to make phone calls via Gmail was the most-Tweeted news story, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a collection of television ads in Portuguese for Tiririca, a clown who is running for Congress in Brazil, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug.