Sorry to resurrect a centuries old thread, but this is actually quite cool
Having got hacked off with the trillian newsreader (it sucked, it turns out), I abandoned this for a while...
However, project avoidance does wonderful things, and
www.rdf-ticker.de has a top RDF read-y thing. Tis very nice
Notes on the SG feed : you can specify how many items to retrieve by appending ?count=xxx to the rdf url.