Runter, it sounds like you wouldn't want to go this far, but I've had an idea on my back burner for a while that's a tool to help with this kind of stuff. Basically an aggregator/reddit-clone with editorial tools built into it. The biggest obstacle I've found to maintaining this kind of thing long-term is keeping up the weekly commitment (whether on your own or finding contributors).
I did this for a year with a similar genre to muds (http://ifurls.tumblr.com/), by hand, so that's my experience anyway. Maybe having a team doing it will alleviate the problems I had.
Please make it RSS-feed available, and then I can subscribe planet mud-dev to it. I'm sure some of those discussions will be mud development related, right?
Most of the work is being involved enough in the community to know what is trending/interesting for combination and summary.
If you're interested contact me. It's a pretty low commitment thing, and wouldn't take long to get online.
Thanks