Since I'm one of those "weekend hackers who likes to use PHP like a newb"...... I use a self hosted and rather hacked up rnews install: http://rnews.sourceforg

Since I'm one of those "weekend hackers who likes to use PHP like a newb"...... I use a self hosted and rather hacked up rnews install: http://rnews.sourceforge.net/ http://rnews.sourceforge.net/ It uses magpierss to grab feeds: http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ I also make heavy use of yahoo pipes to munge together a few rss feeds and do other regex'y type things to a feeds: http://pipes.yahoo.com http://pipes.yahoo.com (pls yahoo, never kill pipes!) The reason I like rnews is the boxed layout (where each feed is seperated), rather than every other rss reader which jams everything into a single feed. With the boxed way I have the feeds I read daily up top and then progressively have boxes for sites which I only skim headlines for every week down lower. I have a side question which I've been meaning to float on HN for some time: is there anything cool I could do with the fact that my self hosted rss aggregator receives roughly 2,000 hits a day from search bots? I mean I get scraped constantly all day, from ALL engines.