[mikedanko]

It's easy to say you're doing it wrong, it's much harder to say how you'd do it right. The ideas are there, they need some integration.

Google News? I abuse the heck out of it, just as feeds to feed Reader however.

The problem I still see with those sites as well as your own, that there's just way too much clicking and tab management involved. Everyone does it, you'll follow a really engaging story, try your damnedest to find the "print" button so you can get it all one one page then decide to instapaper for later or readability for now. Open endless tabs to look up references or if something is late breaking head off to twitter search.

I'd imagine a news portal could be interesting, but not without dramatically lowering the time it takes to navigate around the content and act on it. Finding a way to unobtrusively simplify the use case of someone following tasks to read and understand an article hasn't been done AFAIK, or at least done well. It would seem to me that unscatter is just adding an extra layer on to an already complicated navigation process.