Kinja and international blogs

Happy to see that Kinja is finally launched. Meg and Nick have always been true pioneers in the blogosphere.

However there is one thing that they've never paid enough attention: Internationalization

Kinja suffers from ignoring other languages in the world of blogs. the worst thing is that it even doesn't recognize Unicode characters which now hundreds of thousands of weblogs in the world use.

I'd suggest them to add some other versions for their fantastic service in different languages and get an editor for each version.

There are some minor interface issues too. The most important, in my opinion, is that the name of the blog that's in the beginning of the post disconnects the headline from the post's body in the reader's mind, given that may of the blog names are quite long.

I'd also want to suggest them to start a alert-by-email service such as Bloglet with more configurable options. I guess many bloggers and news website runner will be paying to use this tool to reach their frequent readers.