What I really would love to see are the following things.
RSS Feed, an idea, you can choose different RSS feeds from diferent sites and let them show up on your newsdesk!!
News shown by day.
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news wednesday bla bla march
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news
news
news
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news thursday blabla march
news
news
news
And when you click on an news item, that at the bottom of the file two other news items are being parsed.
Even more, a reply system like there already is, but with the option to give points to the reply somebody gave, for example, you didn't like the comment he made you give him a -1 and if you liked it you give him a +1, at the end of the story you earned 10 + points because you give good comments.