Those who know me know that I'm an RSS feed junkie. My new toy? NewsGator! It integrates with Microsoft Outlook rather nicely – and since I live in OL2k, it's a perfect match. Robert is spinning it on his machine, too. What about you? Well, here's my current set of feeds – and I'm looking to add more as I find them. Hopefully, I'll find an enterprising Windows software developer soon. I've got an idea that's burning a hole in my brain – and I wanna see it come to fruition this week. Yes, I have THAT much patience.

Imagine this: a “News” submenu sitting at the top of your Start Menu, right above the Programs submenu. It cascades out into an organized list of feeds (each feed has its own folder). The “Technology” category folder cascades into a list of subscribed feeds: Wired, CNET, etc. Each of those feeds contains the 15 (or X) most recent posts in the form of Internet Shortcuts. Tooltips contain the provided description / timestamp. You could set it to update every X minutes, archive older links on a per-feed basis, truncate file names to X characters, etc. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Know of anybody who could set something like this up? I want true shell integration here, folks.