I like it! Gatekeepers are real, but moving on, if enough people don't like the current state of affairs, let's see if we can do something to change it. I like Doc Searls' idea of the aggregators that help build up the gatekeepers also doing their part to help others though the gates.
How about not just a slider, but different views. Add a link to Memorandum or Technorati or Digg that says something like "Click here for fresh voices on this topic". An algorithm could sort the data using something like a Pareto Principle for blogs, so you can have a "20" View for the most-read bloggers, and an "80 view for the rest.
Come to think of it, building on Mike Warnot's idea, there are probably a hundred views that I can think of that I'd like - perhaps aggregators could open up their data and algorithms, so that readers could be allowed to make out own views? Digg does this a bit, but just aggregates based on vote, and doesn't provide the views. The data are already there, arranged by hierarchy for bloggers and tags for topics, so I can't imagine it would be that hard....
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