I think this is a great idea and has much bigger potential. One of the themes in publishing right now is that the money has gone out of content, since there are

I think this is a great idea and has much bigger potential. One of the themes in publishing right now is that the money has gone out of content, since there aren't enough people willing to pay but that there's still good opportunities in curating (for example what hacker news does). What if these syllabi were made up of free blogs and articles, like Spolsky's Best Software Writing.