True, the best articles are always the ones which take you in a completely new direction. However I have also found that those same interesting articles are often not very popular which leads me to think social news sites have their flaws. Perhaps the solution needs to not look at what is popular/similar to what you already like but rather new concepts (not that I have any idea how to achieve that)
Out of interest how does your idea differ from reddit, digg, hacker news or many of the other social news sites currently around? they all offer methods of easily scanning & consuming content as well as allowing discussions. I do agree that there are issues with our current methods of consuming news but I think there needs to be a much more significant paradigm shift than what you are proposing.
I am however very happy to be corrected, could you provide a little more information?
Cool, well would defiantly be up for meeting people. March 3rd sounds like a good day for me. How does that fit in with everybody? Anyone know of a good way of organising this?