New Media Index: No Dominant Stories on Blogs, Twitter

A former death row inmate who won a $14 million from the Supreme Court was the subject of the most shared news links by bloggers, while the new Google +1 service topped the Twitter list, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a Japanese Coast Guard vessel heading straight into a wave to avoid damage, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of March 28-April 1.

A former death row inmate who won a $14 million from the Supreme Court was the subject of the most shared news links by bloggers, while the new Google +1 service topped the Twitter list, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a Japanese Coast Guard vessel heading straight into a wave to avoid damage, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of March 28-April 1.

The high court ruling in favor of John Thompson — who had been on death row for murder but was later declared innocent due to a blood test that did not surface during the trial — accounted for 13 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, followed by: a BBC radio piece by author Zadie Smith arguing against closing public libraries, at 12 percent; the creation of artificial clouds to provide...

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