Magnifisyncopathological: Liberal/Conservative in What Way, Kinja?

April 02, 2004

Liberal/Conservative in What Way, Kinja?

There has been some attention paid to the recent arrival of a new blog service called Kinja. What is it? It is:

...a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.

Weblogs are much talked about, but still challenging to navigate for the average web user. Kinja is designed to bring weblog writers to a broader audience, by making it easier to explore topics, posts and writers.

Curious, I quickly browsed around both the conservative and liberal "Editor's Digest" subsections and noticed something.

Jim Henley is under the liberal section. His discussion of his April Fools post was linked in the "liberal" same section as these bloggers:

There are more, several of whom I've never heard of and several of whom are not so easily categorized as liberals. But upon what grounds is that categorization made? The roster of "conservative" bloggers in the other section is populated with a few of the obvious mentions, but then again, some aren't so obvious.

I e-mailed the service asking for clarification on their selection processes.

UPDATE(4/5/2004 1:20pm)
I've been talking with Nick Denton about implementing sort of a "libertarian digest" to be featured off the main page. Nothing solid or confirmed yet, but I did send him a bunch of links to libertarian blogs for consideration.

UPDATE(4/7/2004 11:17pm)
More here.

Posted by Drizzten at April 02, 2004 11:17 AM

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Woah. Michele Catalano of "A Small Victory" aint conservative. She's definately centre. Seems you mis-catagorise as well :p

Posted by: Ken on April 5, 2004 02:53 AM

I don't read ASV as much as I used to, so she may have undergone a political shift to the center, but from what I do remember of her and from a cursory reading of her April archives, she's still a hawkish handful.

Posted by: Drizz on April 5, 2004 08:49 AM

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