Great post and interesting discussion.

I don't think there are too many people writing about WordPress for the reasons stated above. Most people who write about WP are writing about specific functionality, themes, plugins, or hacks, that they have used or have some kind of opinion on.

I started writing about WordPress because I was a huge fan and was impressed by all the helpful people in the community. In the WP world, I don't consider my blog to be all that well known. I don't create themes regularly, I don't write plugins, I just write about the WP topics that matter to me and that I think may help others with WP as I have been helped by many of you above. However, the people that contact me to ask for help with WP related tasks consider me a WP expert. My WP expertise lies in teaching people what it is, how to apply it to the site they would like to build, and how to put the pieces together from existing themes, plugins, code hacks, etc.

I rely on the many people developing and writing about WP topics in order to help those that read my site and rely on me. I think we all have our place in the WP food chain, from the top, all the way down to the one sentence blog scapers (bottom feeders).

I think a WordPress portal built by the WordPress fanboys and fangirls is an idea that has merit, and I think would be a success, but I certainly wouldn't want it to compete with any of the official WordPress resources, but rather be an extension of those resources.

I would jump at the opportunity to be involved and to put my specific WP expertise in a place where the highest number of current and future users could benefit.