Off the mind, the newsletters I subscribe to: Console dev, Bytes, Changelog News, Hackernewsletter, Matt Rickard, Ben Evans, Stratechery, Unzip dev, Browsertech, Command Line, This Week at YC. All of this takes 2-3 hours reading weekly which I catchup on a Sunday night with no Read Laters.
This reminds me of Coil subscriptions that was built on a similar micropayments concept for paying out creators. Sadly they shut down. Worth looking into their efforts, what went wrong...
I use the timeboxing technique daily to maintain a tab on time spent while surfing the net. Also there is a particular workflow that works with me now, for which I use a couple of tools to achieve. I use feeder.co to keep track of my feeds and newsletters. There's a daily folder which I check daily, and for others I subscribe to weekly newsletters so that I get curated content which saves me my time. In the weekdays I just stash interesting articles, projects, etc that I discover among my feeds to instapaper. I have linked the instapaper folders to my RSS reader with RSS so that on weekends I can check my stashed items. On the weekends I go through them all as I have free time on hand and then organize them into Raindrop.io bookmarking tool neatly. So it's, discover, stash, read, and then organize workflow with me.
The main issue is with the funding model of open ecosystem. Once open models have a viable business model they'll all flourish. As consumers start realizing the dark side of closed systems and thus the need of open models it'll drive companies to go open and engineer models to cater them.