What’s Worthy of Comment? Content and Comment Volume in Political Blogs

In research on blog data, comments are often ignored, What makes a blog post noteworthy? One measure of the and it is easy to see why: comments are very noisy, full popularity or breadth of interest of a blog post is the extent of nonstandard grammar and spelling, usually unedited, often to which readers of the blog are inspired to leave comments cryptic and uninformative, at least to those outside the on the post. In this paper, we study the relationship between blog's community. A few studies have focused on information the text contents of a blog post and the volume of response in comments. Mishe and Glance (2006) showed the it will receive from blog readers. Modeling this relationship value of comments in characterizing the social repercussions has the potential to reveal the interests of a blog's readership of a post, including popularity and controversy. Their largescale community to its authors, readers, advertisers, and scientists user study correlated popularity and comment activity.