New Media Index: Bloggers Ponder Artificial Life, Tweeters Poke Fun at LifeLock CEO
Bloggers were blinded with science — specifically the American scientists who developed the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA — while the identity theft of the CEO of LifeLock (dominated the Twitterverse, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a campaign ad for Dale Peterson, a Republican who is running for the Alabama Agriculture Commission, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of May 17-21.
The artificial-life story represented 20 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, and it was followed by: the announcement that South Korea was formally implicating North Korea in a March 26 torpedo attack, at 8 percent; a column in The Washington Post by Dana Milbank saying recent GOP conventions in Utah and Maine signaled an increasingly radical Republican Party, also at 8 percent; a Supreme Court ruling that...
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