Jeff of Commonmedia implemented Technorati API support with the CommonTimes news front page. Now when you read the news, you can see links to related posts in the blogosphere - and you can see excerpts when if you click on the # blogs link…

Look on their front page to see the # of blogs linking to different stories http://www.commontimes.org

Here is an example of the click through page showing excerpts…

Jeff adds: ‘I’m not aware of any news site that’s done this other than the individual topic searches or popular list on technorati itself’.