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Daily ME is a term that describes a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes. This term was popularized by
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founder
Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). Negroponte ...
. The term has also been associated with the phenomenon of individuals customizing and personalizing their news feeds, resulting in their being exposed only to content they are already inclined to agree with. The Daily Me is a term popularized by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte to describe a virtual daily newspaper customized for an individual's tastes. Negroponte discusses it in his 1995 book, '' Being Digital'', referencing a project under way at the Media Lab, Fishwrap. Designed by Pascal Chesnais and
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and implemented by Media Lab students, the system allowed a greater deal of customization than commercially available systems in 1997. Fred Hapgood, in a 1995 article in ''Wired'', credited the concept and phrase to Negroponte's thinking in the 1970s. In 2005, Eduardo Hauser, a Venezuelan entrepreneur based in Hollywood, Florida, founded DailyMe, Inc., and developed a proprietary, patent-pending application to create personalized newspapers and have them automatically delivered to each user's printer, fax machine, or computer. In Steven Johnson's book '' Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software'', which concerns emergent properties, Johnson addresses some of Negroponte's fears with homeostasis and feedback systems in mind. He argues that a newspaper tailored to the tastes of a person on a given day will lead to too much
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in that direction, and people's choices for one day would permanently affect their viewings for the rest of their lives. Since the book's release, in 2001, many customer-oriented websites, such as
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and Half.com, regularly utilize a customer's past views and purchases to determine what merchandise they believe will entice the customer's interest. The term has also been associated with the phenomenon of individuals customizing and personalizing their news feeds, resulting in their being exposed only to content they are already inclined to agree with. The Daily Me can thus be a critical component of the "echo chamber" effect, defined in an article in ''Salon'' by David Weinberger as "those Internet spaces where like-minded people listen only to those people who already agree with them." Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the
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, analyzes the implications of the Daily Me in his book ''Republic.com''. Daily me and echo chambers have been suggested as one of the extremes of society induced by technology, the other being
Tyranny of the majority The tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) is an inherent weakness to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions. This results in oppres ...
. Zite was a popular application that was similar to the Daily Me concept. It was available on
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, Android, and
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. FeedSavvy.com is a similar service available on the web for PC and Mac users. noosfeer is addressing this issue by letting the users explore subjects with a wider range in the results, avoiding the filter bubble effect.


See also

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Collaborative filtering Collaborative filtering (CF) is a technique used by recommender systems.Francesco Ricci and Lior Rokach and Bracha ShapiraIntroduction to Recommender Systems Handbook Recommender Systems Handbook, Springer, 2011, pp. 1-35 Collaborative filtering ...
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Filter bubble A filter bubble or ideological frame is a state of intellectual isolationTechnopediaDefinition – What does Filter Bubble mean?, Retrieved October 10, 2017, "....A filter bubble is the intellectual isolation, that can occur when websites make us ...
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Recommendation system A recommender system, or a recommendation system (sometimes replacing 'system' with a synonym such as platform or engine), is a subclass of information filtering system that provide suggestions for items that are most pertinent to a particular ...


References

*'' Emergence'' by Stephen Johnson. (2001) ()


External links


DailyMe.com
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The New York Times. March 18, 2009. Retrieved May 3, 2010. 1990s neologisms News aggregators