8. The method of claim 1 , the first social media content comprising at least one of a blog posting, microblog posting, weblog posting, usenet posting, or message board posting.
1. A method for assessing an emotional sentiment related to a topic, comprising: identifying first social media content comprising a first link to a first article associated with the topic; assessing an emotional sentiment related to the first article as a function of one or more terms in the first social media content; identifying second social media content comprising a second link to a second article associated with the topic and comprising content similar to the first article, the second article comprising content similar to the first article when S(a i ,a j )/size(a i ) exceeds a predetermined threshold where S(a i ,a j ) is a number of terms of a largest set of infrequent terms between the first article (a i ) and the second article (a j ) and size (a i ) is the number of terms in the larger of articles a i and a j ; assessing an emotional sentiment related to the second article as a function of one or more terms in the second social media content; and aggregating the emotional sentiment related to the first article with the emotional sentiment related to the second article to assess the emotional sentiment related to the topic, at least some of the method implemented at least in part via a processing unit.