In a response to my Examiner related idea, Ben Hammersley wrote:

"It's an interesting idea, certainly, but I see one big problem. If this is to be a digest of the best the blogging world has, i.e. a sort of intelligently edited Daypop, then the editor is going to be stuck with an issue no other editor has to face: everyone can see his slush pile. We'd know just what was rejected, and I'd put money on the fact that no editor of any skill or experience would want to be second-guessed like that. Witness the continual harping at Slashdot about which stories are chosen and which aren't, and times that by a million, add in the question of who gets the surplus ad revenue, issues of editorial liability, and the nasty questions of bias, and you've got an impossible job for the editor. Editing by committee is not an option. I've done it. Not an option."

When weather gets cold long enough, body hair thickens and grows denser.  In other words, people will either adapt or freeze to death.  Editors with balls will step up and do what they have to do.  If nobody does, I'll do it myself even if I have to wear a bullet-proof vest.  Let them shoot off my middle-finger.