I was perusing the Hubski Digital Music Swap thread started by delta, and I was struck by a comment from AdSeriatim suggesting playlists. that got me thinking about the possibility of curated playlists.
My thought was that they would be designed for someone who has never encountered that style of music, or that instrument, or whatever the specific theme of that playlist. The curators would then have to narrow it down to a maximum of 20, minimum of 8 representative examples of that playlist's theme, focusing on a "for the enthousiastic novice" sort of audience.
I don't know how much interest there would be regarding this, but I figured I would throw this idea to the wolves and see how torn up it gets.