New Media Index: Ruling on California Gay-Marriage Ban Dominates Blogosphere

Bloggers were abuzz about the Aug. 4 ruling by U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker that California’s ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional, while Tweeters were fixated on the push by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for other billionaires to donate up to one-half of their fortunes to charity, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was an “auto-tune” musical parody produced by the Gregory Brothers of an interview featuring Antoine Dodson, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Aug.