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.

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