Clicking Hell!

This article in The Feature by Carlo Longino, talks about the reason why browsing hasn't really taken off on a mobile. Usability. I can't count the number of times that I've needed to access information on the internet where my only access was the mobile, but only in the cases where the information was critical (what was the damned address of the place I was going to!?) have I managed to persist and get the necessary information.
It's just too damned hard to go through all that scrolling and clicking, even if the speed is sufficient, which it usually isn't (though strangely this seems to be due to the fixed part rather than the mobile part, it seems operators have very small pipes to the general internet!).
A new paradigm is necessary, to allow access to information in significantly shorter steps. My view is that the key to this is the community. The community performs it's own partitioning of the internet, brings the relevant closer and pushes the irrelevant further away.
You've seen sites like Linkedin and others that connect people together, what we need is a similar thing for ideas and information. Flickr is a start, but it's current scope is somewhat trivial. Take Flickr and move it 3 generations out and we might have something useable.
Try thinking about a trip to the mall, typically you will have a place from where you know how to get to your favourite shops, and the mall may even be organised according to subject matter, e.g. Food court, or electronics shops.
Now imagine this; as part of the community I have a number of contacts, who share things in common with me, so when I am looking for information they may already have it. Because I am only searching what has already been found, my search can be less specific, e.g. 'Martin O'Neill' as a member of the Celtic FC community has a fairly clear meaning.
Of course, people are not one-dimensional and are likely to be a part of several communities, and the information map is also navigable, e.g. 'fwd, fwd, left, up' might take me to the range of wines in Oddbins.
There is also currency of information, which again can be controlled by the community implicitly and the paths less travelled fade to grey (sorry, no design implication intended). I found this link related to iPod navigation that reveals a similar train of thought. Also, this interface design has some interesting community based ideas.
Ok, enough for now... my train of thought has derailed due to hunger.