[wankmaster]

Thanks alessandro!

This is great, I'll take a look and see if I can figure out how to display it.

Edit:

yep that worked first time. The way I have it for a standard wordpress rss2 feed all I need to do is add your url to the list in the sidebar and the script does it.

For non rss2 I have to do a little hack to tell my script the type of feed, but eventually I want to make it so all I have to do is add a blog to the "contributing blogs" list.

The problem at the moment is when it updates it's very slow, so the first surfer in the time period has to wait. After that it's as fast as any other blog.

I'm wondering if I can put a cron job onto it or something, but I'm unsure how to make cron simulate a browser. Basically all I'm doing is using the wp-cache plugin so the blog just needs to think it has been hit every now and then. Anyone know how to do that?

thanks