Emotional News?

The traditional editorial task has always been two-fold: a desk editor might first rank the day's articles by "importance" and "relevance," then decide-of those deemed equally important-which type of story deserves the top headline spot. You know, sniff out whether readers want the tragic articles or the uplifting ones with their morning coffee - but there are a host of other emotions that articles can evoke from readers, and deciding which tonal genre deserves page prominence is as subjective a task as any.

This reconciling of a mixed audience's favorite emotions has always been a problem for news services. It's only worth bringing up now because DailyMe found a better way to make it work - It's called Meme-It!

Like "Digg It" and "Stumble It," it's a way for readers to mark the online news articles that they think other people should see but Meme-It! goes a step further by allowing you rate articles on the way they make you feel.

The Meme-It! emoticons are a set of six blue "smileys" that represent the following descriptors:

enlightening, insightful, uplifting, humorous, tragic, weird

...and the choice is all yours. Now you have the ablity to read the day's news based on your mood or the tone of news you want to read. Dare we say, a great editorial obstacle overcome? Well, we think putting the news in better context is always a good thing.

Check out our Meme-It! news editions in our DailyWe section of the site.

For the frigid, emotionless type who won't be able to take advantage of our new feature - We're sorry.