Copyright laws are a serious matter and nobody understands that better than former Florida governor Charlie Crist. Crist made the innocent mistake of using the Talking Heads song ‘Road To Nowhere’ in a YouTube video advertisement in his Senate campaign last year and is now paying the consequences. After losing a lawsuit filed by David Byrne of the Talking Heads, Crist has made a public apology on YouTube, which is climbing the viral charts today.
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Economic issues, particularly the housing market, topped the list of the most-shared news links by bloggers, while the rescue of the formerly trapped miners from the northern Atacama desert in Chile accounted for the most Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was an unannounced visit to a London school by actor Johnny Depp after he received a letter from one of its students, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Oct. 11-15.
The home mortgage crisis, fraudulent foreclosure procedures, and other economic issues made up 22 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, followed by: a column by Professor Jerry A. Coyne from the University of Chicago in USA Today, which argued that science and faith cannot coexist, also at 22 percent; education, including the resignation of Washington, D.C. public-schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, at 18 percent; coverage by the Los Angeles Times of the first CicLAvia event, which turned some of Hollywood’s most-trafficked streets into a pathway for pedestrians and bicyclists, at 9 percent; and the Chilean miners, also at 9 percent.
