Kinja, from the minds that brought you Gawker, Wonkette, Fleshbot, et al is a weblog digest that collects the latest entries from your favorite blogs. It is basically a simplified RSS feed reader, but much less complicated and aimed at a more mainstream audience. For an example, take a look at my digest.

The only problem I have with it is that Kinja doesn’t collect posts every time there is a new post on a favorite blog. This means that it might collect posts from Instapundit every two hours thus leading to a flood of posts from Glenn Reynolds on your digest if he has posted a lot of things in those two hours. However, this is nice for Tennessee professor’s bandwidth costs as explained here:

Inclusion in Kinja can introduce a weblog author to new readers, and alert existing readers to fresh posts. Most blog reader applications grabs content each time a user requests an update, which increases a weblog owner’s bandwidth bills. By contrast, Kinja operates a central index. The system analyses a weblog once, and then distributes updates to many Kinja readers simultaneously. This method is technically more efficient, and spares weblog owners unnecessary cost.

So everyone wins, right? For more info, take a look at Gawker President Nick Denton’s post on the project.

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