A new Boston website aims to bring order to the tens of millions of weblogs proliferating online and provide one-stop shopping for overwhelmed Internet surfers. In the process, it could put some cash in the pockets of Internet scribes pecking away in obscurity.

The company is set to disclose next week a $6 million funding infusion led by Jim Manzi, former chief executive of Lotus Development Corp. and the New York investment bank co-run by Bill Bradley, the former US senator.

CEO Tom Gerace sees Gather less as a mere host for bloggers than as a social networking site, like teenage blogger favorite MySpace.com, but for an older and more sophisticated audience.

Sorry, MemeStreams; the window is closed. David Brooks just got his highbrow MySpace.