I see curation as the important problem right now. It's telling that the two web juggernauts right now are Google and Facebook - both basically curation companies through search and social networking.

Of course blogs don't have to be first-order (in fact, more of them need to be!) Most blogs (like most traditional media these days) are parasitic off of factual traditional reporting and academic papers, and other blogs go off into third-order meta-analysis.

If you need your narrative, there's somebody out there who wants to give it to you, we just have to figure out a way to make sure they can eat. Tax deductions for donations? Monthly billed funds to make sure that you can donate to sources that support the information you like to consume, but you may not have an awareness of?