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Jeff's Recently Read RSS Channels   Sample Output:   Inspirational Technology   X-log   Democratic Vistas   USA Today : Front Page   Sender Traumwind   Moreover - moreover...   Moreover - Afghanista...   MetaFilter   inessential.com   Moreover - Bay Area news   Jonathon Delacour   CNET News.com: Enterp...       Jeff's Recently Read RSS Channels was inspired by Jon Udell's most excellent mySubscriptions script. To set up your own Recently Read RSS Web Service: Copy the following code: on jtcRecentlyReadRSS (ctSubscriptions=12, pretext="<p>", posttext="</p>", maxNameLength=24) { local (channelTable); local (changeTable); new (tableType, @channelTable); new (tableType, @changeTable); for adrService in (@aggregatorData.services) { local (channelTitle = adrService^.compilation.channeltitle); local (channelDescription = adrService^.compilation.channeldescription); local (channelUrl = adrService^.compilation.channellink); local (rssUrl = nameOf(adrService^)); channelTable.[channelTitle] = {channelDescription, channelURL, rssURL}; changeTable.[channelTitle] = adrService^.timeLastChange}; local (ctServices = sizeOf (changeTable)); oldTarget = target.set(@changeTable); table.sortBy("Value"); target.set (@oldTarget); local (htmlText = ""); on add (s) { htmlText = htmlText + preText + s + postText + cr}; local (ctOutput = 0); while ( ctOutput < ctSubscriptions) && (ctOutput < ctServices) { local (channelTitle = nameOf (changeTable[ctServices - ctOutput])); local (channelDescription = string.replaceAll (channelTable.[channelTitle][1],"'","'")); bundle { // clean up Description channelDescription = searchEngine.stripMarkup (channelDescription)}; local (channelUrl = channelTable.[channelTitle][2]); local (rssUrl = string.urlencode (channelTable.[channelTitle][3])); local (lastChange = date.timeString (changeTable.[channelTitle], false)); local (longChannelTitle = string.replaceAll (channelTitle,"'","'")); bundle { // clean up the channelTitle channelTitle = longChannelTitle; if string.length (channelTitle) > maxNameLength { channelTitle = string.mid (channelTitle, 1, maxNameLength - 3) + "..."}; channelTitle = string.replaceAll (channelTitle," "," "); bundle { <a href="//">//</a> clean up Alwin... if channelTitle contains "<a href=\"mailto:alwin@mac.com\">" { channelTitle = string.replaceAll (channelTitle, "<a href=\"mailto:alwin@mac.com\">Alwin Hawkins</a>", "Alwin Hawkins")}}}; local (baseURL = "http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/subscriptions?url="); local (imgTag = "<img alt=\"Click to subscribe in Radio\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0001018/images/bullets/tinyCoffeeCup.jpg\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">"); local (imgTagX = "<img alt=\"Click to subscribe in Radio\" border=\"0\" src=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0001018/images/bullets/tinyXML.jpg\" width=\"16\" height=\"7\">"); local (toolText = "Click on the XML coffee mug to subscribe to "" + longChannelTitle + "" in Radio UserLand."); add ("<a href=\"" + rssURL + "\" title=\"Click here for the XML version of "" + longChannelTitle + "."\">" + imgTagX + "</a> <a href=\"" + baseURL + rssUrl + "\" title=\"" + toolText + "\">" + imgTag + "</a> <a href=\"" + channelUrl + "\" title=\"" + channelDescription + " Last changed: " + lastChange + "\">" + channelTitle + "</a>"); ctOutput ++}; return (htmlText)} Paste the code into a new document in your favorite text editor. Save this document in your Radio UserLand/Web Services folder, as "jtcRecentlyReadRSS.txt". Now to use this Recently Read Web Service: Copy the following code: <%jtcRecentlyReadRSS (12, "<p class=\"realsmall\">", "</p>")%> Paste the code where ever you want (in your posts and/or templates). This macro can also be implemented as a Macro. Special Thanks to Dictionary.com for showing me how to distribute code snippets without the recipient unintentionally picking up invisible characters which render the code inoperable.