BLEWS: Using Blogs to Provide Context for News Articles / American Association for Artificial Intelligence, April 2008
PDF - http://research.microsoft.com/~chrisko/papers/ICWSM_paper.pdf
"An overwhelming number of news articles are available every day via the internet. Unfortunately, it is impossible for us to peruse more than a handful; furthermore it is difficult to ascertain an article’s social context, i.e., is it popular, what sorts of people are reading it, etc. In this paper, we develop a system to address this problem in the restricted domain of political news by harnessing implicit and explicit contextual information from the blogosphere..."