Brett (and others), I've been watching the RSS phenomenon on the sidelines and trying not to get sucked too far into it (because it looks like a lot of fun).

But... If one wanted to set up a very small RSS feed in the simplest possible way, can you recommend how to do it? I understand how to mark up an RSS file (could do a simple one by hand, like I do my HTML). I know there are whole site management tools like Manila, Greymatter, etc., that automate the whole thing. But let's say I make a little 10-item RSS file and update it by hand each week. What is the easiest way to allow anyone to plug that feed into their own pages?

I see that http://www.researchbuzz.com/newsstand.html for example, offers a JavaScript snippet (that calls some other program), and this works very effectively (I gave it a try). Is there a publicly available bit of Javascript code that I could install onto my own site, one that would by itself translate the RSS into (X)HTML and return that HTML block, and then I could let visitors paste my own snippet on their pages? (I'm afraid I don't know any Javascript; I've tried to keep my sites free of it as much as possible. I come from the Jakob Nielsen school of boring page design. But I might be able to hack on a simple template translator to get it to work.)

Thanks,

RJO (who really just wants to get one of those neat letters from a lawyer, that's all)