> What the world needs, I think, is a paid social media aggregator. If people are going to pay for a newspaper subscription, couldn't you get people to pay for something that makes the web easier to follow?

There are already a number of these: different planet* aggregators for technologies, longreads for "longer pieces", etc...

A single aggregator? The world does not need it, because it's absolutely worthless and makes little to no sense. I probably don't want to read what you want to, and neither does the next guy.

> If people are going to pay for a newspaper subscription

There's a reason why newspaper are dying: by and large, people are not going to pay for a newspaper subscription.