By design, it's a perfect fit for RSS 0.91. So if you're building a network out of RSS, you win. And you can edit them in Pike too. Mike, it was in the works last week. You can totally control the appearance of News Items, in the usual way, with a template.
Full docs are here .
A site where any member can post News Items is here . If your site is hosted on a UserLand server the News Items feature is already available. Just turn it on. If you're running a Frontier server, update , and you'll get the feature too. So many email birthday greetings, so little time.