Here is a taste of the new activeRenderer 1.4 with RSS rendering: I've rendered Dave Winer's, Jon Udell's and my own RSS feeds as a proof of concept.

I'm building the new rendering code into a Usertalk macro, to be placed into Radio templates. This way, a Radio weblog will be able to display several different newsfeeds in addition to the blog itself on the public site.

In the examples above, the macros would look like:

<%activeNews ( rss:DaveStr, flDisplayChannelTitle:true, itemCnt:6, expandedCnt:3 )%>
<%activeNews ( rss:JonStr, flDisplayChannelTitle:true, itemCnt:4, flCreateHeader:true )%>
<%activeNews ( rss:MarcStr, flDisplayChannelTitle:true, flCollapseChannelTitle:true, itemCnt:6, flCreateHeader:true )%>

The rendering code will also be reachable via XML-RPC, SOAP, and straight URL parsing. This way, I intend to at last provide RSS inclusion in OPML outline rendering.

Mikel Maron: "activeRenderer View for News Aggregation. This is very cool. I've been using the aggregator in an outline, for a couple months now, and I wouldn't go back. Do check out the screenshot and I hope this update is enjoyed."

Wow, cool indeed :-). With Mikel's myRadio tool, you can use Radio's aggregator, and get a better organized view of your feeds.

If you're like John Robb, browsing through 116 subscribed feeds, the new version of myRadio sounds like a winning proposition.

Here is another screenshot of what it looks like from my MacOS desktop.

The coming version 1.4 of activeRenderer will feature RSS rendering in addition to OPML. More on that subject soon...