Four great story flows, one suck-ass website. Winer’s SalonHerringWiredFool takes four story flows that are great individually and intermingles them. While Dave’s a clever programmer, he’s no information designer. Scanning through these headlines is confusing as hell because he’s pulled them out of context. When looking at a particular story you don’t know if it’s general news or technology or finance or what and must spend more cognitive juice figuring that out on a story by story basis.

There’s a reason each of these sites carried over the newspaper convention of categories and sections and of grouping items in a visual way: the shit works. This is not the way to re-invent the portal.