A new app for the Android is stirring up controversy, and a once unlikely alliance is leading the cause to have the game removed. Dog Wars, a mobile app that is just what it sounds like, has come under heated resistance led by Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick and the Human Society.
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The Republican-controlled 112th Congress was the subject of the most news links shared by bloggers, while the Twitterverse was enthralled with Apple for the second consecutive week, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was BBC footage of polar bears playing with hidden “spy” cameras, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Jan. 3-7.
A total of 32 percent of bloggers’ news links focused on the new Congress, followed by: the death of actress Anne Francis, at 18 percent; a BBC audio interview with openly gay actor Rupert Everett about the problems homosexuals face in the film industry, at 10 percent; White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs leaving his post to help direct President Barack Obama‘s re-election campaign, at 9 percent; and a story in USA Today about thousands of red-winged blackbirds falling dead in an Arkansas town on New Year’s Eve, at 7 percent.
Apple, particularly reports that the company’s value topped $300 billion, was the subject of 20 percent of Tweeted news links, followed by: a TechCrunch column predicting seven new technologies that will “rock” in 2011, at 10 percent; Twitter at 6 percent; Skype’s acquisition of video streaming service Qik, also at 6 percent; and social-networking site Quora, at 6 percent, as well.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who spent 21 months in prison following his 2007 conviction for his role in a dog-fighting ring, wants another dog. That revelation — about as likely as Bernie Madoff launching an investment firm — came in a conversation Vick had with NBC News’ Mara Schiavocampo for TheGrio.com, msnbc.com‘s recently launched African American-targeted Web site. Vick told Schiavocampo:
I would love to get another dog in the future. I think it would be a big step for me in the rehabilitation process. I think just to have a pet in my household and to show people that I genuinely care, and my love and my passion for animals; I think it would be outstanding. If I ever have the opportunity again, I will never take it for granted. I miss having a dog right now. I wish I could. My daughters miss having one, and that’s the hardest thing; telling them that we can’t have one because of my actions.
