Here is a nice tool, the Big Picture, to visualize the relationship between stories, see relates stories, and discover more on the topics and companies featured in the story. It is not nearly as robust as a social network based search tool like iQuest, but it does offer a simple way to go beyond story than is more comprehensive than a simple list of related stories.
You will see the original story in the center of the diagram, and then related stories, companies and topics. You can simply the diagram by dropping any of the three groupings ((related stories. topics, companies). Size does matter as the more popular stories are larger in the diagram. It appears to be manual effort to populate it as “For every story published, News.com editors and reporters included relevant links to other News.com stories. In addition, News.com highlights the important companies that appear in a story as well as attach appropriate topics to each story.” Automate generation would make it easier and open up many more possibilities.
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