When you reach for a second helping of Lindsay Lohan instead of reading the latest neutrino news, should your computer nudge you back to good habits? That's the promise — or threat — of an MIT Media Lab project discussed in this Nieman Journalism Lab post. Imagine "a Firefox plugin that would passively watch your websurfing behavior and characterize your personal information consumption," researcher Ethan Zuckerman says. Yikes. Followup post.
