There’s already some heavy kvetching in effect about a new Denton-property called Kinja, a topical blog-post aggregator. The main bitch is this:

Just another “portal” where the unseen, all-knowing “editors” decide what is good for you to read? … Blogs of note? And who the hell is deciding who meets that standard? Even more important, what is that standard?

Actually, the real complaint seems to be: “They haven’t linked me yet and my feelings are hurt.” But leave that for the moment. What exactly is any blog? Often there’s personal commentary, but someone like Instapundit is, 90 percent of the time, basically an editor trolling around and finding links that he thinks other people might find interesting. How is this different or worse? And, for that matter, how else is it supposed to work, exactly? If you’re not going to read everything, someone’s got to be doing the selection by some basically subjective criteria, right? You can always have your news aggregator feed you your own selections, of course, but if you don’t have time to go hunting though the blogosphere yourself, this sounds useful enough. Or anyway, as useful as any number of “linker” blogs. The force of the complaint here’s pretty much lost on me.