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NickDenton.org: Kinja Is Live

So, you love blogs but have too many to keep up with, and RSS is too much of a pain for you to deal with? That's the value proposition Kinja is counting on. The new service, which went live in beta today, is the product of Nick Denton, the former Financial Times journalist who built the headline syndication service Moreover in the '90s and, more recently, the Gawker Media family of commercial blogs.

The site was also project managed by Meg Hourihan, co-founder of the blog software Blogger back in the day (although Meg curiously greeting Kinja's launch with her 30 days notice).

The new service has been under development for more than a year, and at first blush, it seems to have legs. Denton said yesterday that the objective of Kinja was "to take the 10 percent or 5 percent of Internet users who currently read blogs and make it 50 percent."

One thing I find potentially troubling: by default, Kinja makes your reading list open to the public (for example, here's what I've subscribed to). I didn't notice any prominent disclosure to that effect when I signed up (needless to say, I just checked the box for accepting terms and conditions without reading them). I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I suspect privacy zealots will have something to say about it.