Jon Udell reports back from Groovespace (the RU/Groove space, which has been a focus for so much interesting activity over the past few days). That man can write good. He also has nice things to say about the newsclient tool, which get to the heart of Groove itself:

Suddenly the experience became qualitatively different. This news aggregator was a group resource. I immediately saw it as a way to work more effectively with (for example) my new colleagues at InfoWorld. I know of no other way to focus the attention of a group on a stream of news which is guaranteed to be identically and persistently available to everyone, and at the same time to be able to support collaboration around that stream -- i.e., discussions about which items to pursue.