Law Professor Sees Hazard in Personalized News. Intelligent filtering software [and webloggers, i.e. “intelligent filtering wetware”??] making focused information delivery possible but, argues University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein in Republic.com, can narrow minds and souls.

The last part of Sunstein’s book contains some modest proposals. He’d like to see
a large Web site that was “privately-created, and that operated as a
deliberative domain,” he said, where curious people could go to encounter a mix
of viewpoints on various topics, like abortion, gun control and politics.

He’d also encourage Web sites to offer links to opposing viewpoints as a matter
of course. “Liberal publications to conservative ones, and vice versa,” he said,
adding that government regulation of links to promote democratic values was
“worth considering.”