The Google News layout is the closest analog, so I’ll just include that one. The treatment of information from left to right is the big idea: (1) top-level overview of content via hierarchical category listing; (2) main content digestified to surface skimmable contents of posts; (3) widgets that provide shortcuts to interesting content, generated based on the user’s history on the site.
Good question… I was hoping noone would ask. I guess the options are:
- Open the category page (as it is currently designed)
- If there’s enough content, reload the digest view filtered for that category. This might mean hiding the third column altogether.