You know whats funny.. this whole thread just gave me an idea for a project (that whoever wants it can take it) that would be a little borderline scandalous... though I think if the forum admins were smart they would embrace it, since, ultimately it would mean more impressions.
But someone should make a ticker program like this and have it stream headlines for ALL of the active forums, ie GFY, Oprano, PornIsBad.. I'm sure there are more that are pretty active.
Then of course, you could run your little button banner at the top (AOL AIM client style) & generate a little money off selling the ads or something.
... so who wants to bet on how many of these forum streamers will pop up now?