Rollyo is great. It's one of those things I tried to do for myself (for iaslash really) by running htdig and harvesting/indexing all of the sites I read regularly. Rollyo makes this so simple, there's no reason why you shouldn't use it.
Squidoo is another idea that makes sense. It sort of takes the idea of guides and pathfinders and gives lets anyone set up shop as an expert on a topic using their simplified page building interface.
Both are great ideas and projects that are possible because of the APIs and standards made available to developers now. People were just putting these projects up because they could a few years ago. Now people are focussing on information problems and providing services to help get them solved. I don't get really excited about all the Web 2.0 stuff that people are evangelizing out there, but I do get excited by the prospect of new services that help us find information better.
So here's two information architecture services I set up in an hour on both of these sites:
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