Yahoo Pipes - Recent News feed for widget (on the right)

Here is the published Pipe that powers my Recent News widget on Soft Machine: OPML feed items newest 20 with [source] prepended

There are a few details I don't need to go into, at the moment... One thing I will say, however, is that the aggregator pipes I looked at either didn't work or were extremely inefficient. Others weren't suitable, or were fragile, or very specific to a task. This Pipe is general, efficient, and quite good at producing recent items from OPML files. The only ongoing upkeep required is to re-export my subscriptions to the cloud when I make changes I want to see reflected here! In all, I'd say the capabilities of Yahoo Pipes are good, but you may not find what you need easily. [caption id="attachment_152" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Recent News Pipe for Soft Machine"][/caption]