"The latest twist on user ratings comes from DailyMe, which just launched a service for readers to define news by its emotional qualities. With Meme It you can rate a story as Enlightening, Humorous, Insightful, Tragic, Uplifting or Weird - or view a group of stories with those emotional qualities."

Who needs newspapers to report on campaigns with an operation like this?

Hey, pay attention to me!

Interesting not just b/c of its analysis re. Maddow, but for the glimpse of Huffington Post's editorial process…

Josh Marshall strikes back:

"I get asked a lot about the relationship between old media and new media, on the editorial and publishing side. And my usual line is that I think the relationship is much more symbiotic and convergent then people often realize. But when folks ask what scrappy little outfits like TPM would do if the big papers with their cadres of reporters went under, I have wonder, what would big papers like the Washington Post do if TPM went under and they didn’t have our exclusives to steal and run as their own stories on A2 on the following day?"