Hey Mark,

Try "curation" using Scrubz:
http://www.dombom.com/dcforum/DCForumID33/654.html

Use The Newz Tuel to aggregate a bunch of RSS pheeds, including news and your favorite relevant blogs.

Then use Scrubz to pick and choose the best news items and add your own commentary, reviews, summaries and recommendations, rewriting the RSS items into your own words and personality.

Simply picking and choosing the BEST news items from a bunch of news and RSS pheeds does wonders for the quality of the output. Adding your own commentary increases the quality even more.

Scrubz will then export as RSS, which you can use in any way RSS can be used.

Or Fatbomb...Take your time and add only the best, hand chosen sites in a given niche and build a directory of great sites.

You can also add your Scrubz pheeds to your Fatbomb directory, killing two birds with one stone...Although I think you'd need to convert the rss to "fatty format" by hand, but that should only take a minute using the Linez Tuel. (I think)