Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

My initial idea was to make 2 widgets, one small, and one bigger, but then I figured whichever I'm not using would not be maintained as much and break at some point. I'll implement option 1, as detailed by ffarber, as that's easy to do, and maybe I'll add a size option (option to remove the arrow buttons, so making it slimmer). I'm not actually all that fond of the large widget either, but it's nice to see what's possible, what makes sense, and what doesn't.

For those who haven't seen the widget yet, there are a couple of screenshots here:
http://feedingit.marcoz.org/news/?p=54

@tnhh: i'll also fix the feed update time, which is now set everytime an update runs, even if there wasn't anything new.