New Media Index: Federal Salary Raises Dominate Blogosphere; Google Raises/Bonuses Rule Twitterverse

Bloggers shared the most news links to an item in USA Today saying that federal workers’ salaries have risen tenfold in the past five years and doubled since President Barack Obama took office, while good fortune for Google employees in the form of raises and holiday bonuses of $1,000 topped the list of most-Tweeted links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was Italian politician Nichi Vendola speaking about gay rights, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Nov.