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President Barack Obama‘s $3.73 trillion budget proposal was the subject of the most news links shared by bloggers, while The Independent‘s list of the United Kingdom’s 100 most influential and elite people on Twitter was the most-Tweeted news link, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube for the second week in a row was the Feb. 7 edition of The Philip Defranco Show, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Feb. 14-18.

The budget accounted for 22 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, and it was followed by: the situation in Egypt following the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, at 21 percent; an item from The Washington Post about a new Wal-Mart being built in the Northeast part of Washington, D.C., at 10 percent; another Washington Post story about anti-government protests in Iran, at 6 percent; and Chris Cillizza‘s summary of winners and losers from the Conservative Political Action Conference for The Washington Post, also at 6 percent.

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The House of Representatives vote on whether to extend the Patriot Act was the subject of the most news links shared via both blogs and Twitter during the week of Feb. 7-11, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was the Feb. 7 edition of The Philip Defranco Show, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

The Feb. 8 vote accounted for 17 percent of news links shared by bloggers, followed by: a column by The Washington Post sportswriter Sally Jenkins criticizing the lavishness of the Super Bowl in Dallas, at 14 percent; a Washington Post report that the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 9 percent in January from 9.4 percent in December, at 13 percent; and two stories tied at 9 percent — an item in the Los Angeles Times on how 24 state senators and representatives in Southern states have converted from Democrat to Republican since the midterm elections last November, and another Washington Post story about children who unknowingly ran up large bills using applications on the Apple iPad that are free to download initially, but charge once the app is launched.

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Super Bowl Sunday, at 10:07:16 p.m. ET, Twitter reached a new record for Tweets per second during a sporting event, 4,064, topping the previous mark of 3,283, during Japan’s 3-1 victory over Denmark during FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010. The all-time mark of 6,939 Tweets per second, reached just after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Eve, was never threatened, however.

Twitter added that Usher‘s surprise appearance during the halftime show by the Black Eyed Peas was responsible for the second-largest spike in Tweets during the game, followed by the headline act, Slash, Eminem, Christina Aguilera, and the first player on the list, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

The “Pug Attack” commercial for Doritos took the Twitter crown, followed by ads from Audi, Pepsi, Chevy, Coca-Cola, and Groupon.

Auditions for the 10^th season of American Idol are under way, and potential contestants don’t even have to wait in line: Through Oct. 6, singers and wannabe singers between 15 and 28 can submit audition videos via MySpace.

Songs from artists including Michael Jackson, Coldplay, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston, and Maroon 5 can be chosen, and audition videos can be shared via other social networks, such as Facebook and twitter

MySpace hosted similar auditions for Don’t Forget the Lyrics!, and MySpace Karaoke general manager Mari Bower discussed other previous related initiatives in a post on the MySpace Blog:

The American Idol auditions on MySpace are an extension of our talent-discovery program as we give our users even more unique opportunities in entertainment, including our recent successful auditions programs. As most of you know, we held the MySpace Glee casting call last spring, which brought a whopping 34,000 audition submissions, more than 105 million gold stars given, and 23 million video views. We also just announced the latest member of the If I Can Dream house, cast directly from MySpace, Jordyn Mallory. Check out her time in the house so far and get more info her and the rest of the talented cast here.

American Idol host Ryan Seacrest on the MySpace auditions:

AMERICAN IDOL ONLINE AUDITIONS

American Idol | MySpace Video

Black Beat magazine publisher Dorchester Media is bringing content related to its coverage of urban, hip-hop and rap music to mobile phones. The company hooked up with Skycore, which operates the Cellyspace mobile messaging platform, for the launch of Black Beat‘s Pimp Your Phone lineup of mobile wallpapers.

The debut collection includes wallpapers of Christina Aguilera, Nelly, Katy Perry, Pretty Ricky’s Spectacular and a few others.

Each wallpaper is assigned its own keyword. To purchase one, users text the keyword to 33563. The wallpapers cost 99 cents each plus whatever messaging charges apply. Details and keywords are on Black Beat‘s Web site.

CNNMoney.com reports that MySpace Music, scheduled to launch in September, promises to be the most significant rollout of a digital-music service since Apple’s iTunes.

They have reason to be enthusiastic, at least in terms of the scope of MySpace’s latest offering. Remember, MySpace began life as a social networking service for musicians, and had plenty of tools to help them share music and spread the word about their bands.

The new site will enable MySpace users to listen to any song from the catalogs of the three music giants free, the article said. “There will be on-screen ads along with that music, but yes, it will be free. And that includes U2 and Jay-Z-and Christina Aguilera, Kid Rock, and rap superstar T.I.,” due to the linkup with three of the four major labels.

The idea is that there will be a one-click link to iTunes or Windows Media Player, via Amazon-backed technology, to buy the song the person is currently listening to. That’s the real innovation. The comparisons to MTV (as in “this generation’s MTV”) may be a little premature, but we’ll soon see how well it does.