I heard about Readability on the Rebooting the News (RBTN) podcast, episode 55, where Rich Ziade was a guest. Seems very useful. I'm thinking that we might want to apply a similar technology in the content retrieval algorithm of Cluetail Radar Pro – Cluetail Ltd's on-line Media Intelligence tool.
Readability – Installation Video for Firefox, Safari & Chrome from Arc90 on Vimeo.