Several services on the Internet offer insertion of a dynamically updated RSS feed into a webpage via JavaScript. Typically such tools allow you to create a customized script that you can copy and paste into your page. Actual appearance may be determined by the stylesheet you are using on your own site.
A live example
Here is a live feed from this site (using the local stylesheet), created via Feed2JS:
Example removed due to change of host/ blogging platform. Try your own example at the Feed2JS website.
Problems?
Sometimes you may be restricted in the use of JavaScripts. Google's eBlogger is one such site; if you paste a JavaScript into a new blog entry, Google's eBugger (sorry, eBlogger) will tell you:
HTML ERROR: Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed: [etc]
Note that it is possible to circumvent this error and publish a JavaScript-inclusive post, as described here. I can confirm that this works, although the method is convoluted. An alternative option, if you want to incorporate an external page that already has an RSS feed, is to create a new post and "import" the external page into an iframe. For example:
<iframe src="http://bioneural.blogspot.com/" name="rssframe" scrolling="auto" frameborder="1" align="middle" height ="50%" width ="100%"></iframe>Likewise, MSN Spaces (beta) warns:
Some HTML tags may be removed from your entry for security and formatting reasons.
Try publishing an entry that includes a JavaScript and it will miraculously fail to appear. I don't know of any tricks to overcome this limitation.
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