Practicalmadness

Wait, so Kinja isn’t an elaborate April Fools prank, over a year in the making? You mean…it actually exists???

I have always wondered what Gawker Media’s Nick Denton and Meg Hourihan are talking about when they say they’re working on a “blog of all blogs,” and now I understand: it’s like NetNewsWire without the NetNewsWire. It’s a web-based RSS reader. It’s pointless beyond all reason. Brilliant!

I am, perhaps, being mean. This looks like a perfectly good way to experience one’s RSS feeds when you’re away from home, or to share your feeds with other people. Like this: this is my Kinja page.

Of course, if one’s own feeds are in your Kinja profile, and you do a rebuild of the whole site to purge it of penile implant spam…yeah.

Addendum: Part of the why of Kinja is that it not only displays your bookmarks, but links to pages that link to your bookmarks. Impressive from a technical standpoint, but less so considering that I’m so far just seeing a lot of ref-backs to Joelle’s before and after photos. This is not to at all belittle Joelle’s accomplishment (you go, girl!), but from an information architecture standpoint…well, I’m seeing a whole lot of Joelle, and not a whole lot of mindless spreading of the Gmail hoax.

Like, come on, sheeple!