I also see the value in being able to filter and pull-together news feeds and infobots in a separate client-channel.
Sometimes I actually just want to see what Zerohedge is writing and what the weather prediction is, but I wake up to 193 posts, and they're somewhere in there.
On the other hand, I am sometimes reluctant to subscribe to bots I'm interested in because they can be prolific and they drown out the real posters.

This would allow for an entirely different client to be built.