@Jeffro, I can understand your pessimism, but I'll politely disagree that it's a ticking time bomb. I've been collecting this same amount of news / links and sharing it on Twitter for over two years. What's to keep me from being able to do so on WordPress? Just eating my own dogfood.

And you were the one that applauded curation above.

PS: Paying you a couple hundred bucks a week to maintain and update this site would be peanuts, and well worth it. You could definitely monetize beyond that. Unfortunately, when priority #1 is to put food on the table this month, it makes that vision harder without some outside help.