I've now got newsfeed imports turned on. This differs from the normal way of viewing external news feeds in that you can import some or all of the articles into your personal view of this site.

With this, you can build up a page of daily updates from anything that interests you. 

Currently you can't read comments from or make comments on external articles unless you go back to the original site. This is where feed technology is still in chaos, but it's starting to settle down now that atom-thread is going to RFC.

The other thing missing from news articles right now is categories. This is likely to show up in a few days.

The immediate effect is that I've preloaded a few interesting feeds. This should spice up the front page a little. 

Oh yeah - I also whipped up a preview mode for comments.

And a hundred other little tweaks that you'll probably never know about because if all goes well they should just work and you won't have any reason to care.