The easiest way to add drudge-style news links to your blog. Add this widget to your sidebar, and combined with our firefox add-on, when you find an interesting article it can be published on your blog in only 2 clicks.

No accounts required. Completely free. Extremely easy to use.

Download: launchbeat-custom-news-feed.0.2.zip (supports WP 2.0.2 - 2.5)

Instructions:

• Put launchbeat.php in your plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins)
• Activate the plugin
• Add the widget to your sidebar, configure with your feed name and number of articles.

Optionally, if you do not wish to use the widget you can invoke "get_launchbeat() or get_launchbeat(feedname, feedLength)" directly.

Note: The plugin will attempt to cache the feed. Please don't be upset if it takes a few minutes for any feed changes to be reflected on the site. The default cache time is 1 hour, this is necessary just incase some of you have unusually popular blogs.

Demo usage: pointbite.com (the news section of the 1st sidebar)

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