I think these questions are mostly for Moshe
The nodes for feeds and stories used by sidebar.module should not be published anywhere except for an admin interface, does the import module have a way to deal with this? Where is a current copy of node.module I can use when developing sidebar.module?
-Neil
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What you want is for new items in a given feed to be 'unpublished' by default. This prevents them from appearing anywhere except Admin. So you need to enhance feed.module in order that new items get thus unpublish bit set when they are saved. For UI, you will want to mimic the 'promote' dropdown menu on the feed admin page. For functionality, you also want to mimic the 'promote' bit. If you search for 'promote' in the code (warning - I haven't tried this) you should see how it is working and add your publish/unpublish bit similarly.
An HTML mockup of how this will look for Admins and for Users would help me understand if there is a better way to accomplish this within Drupal as opposed to creating a new module. From what I gather, you want a feed whose last item? is always the content of a Block. We have everything alreayd except for the 'whose content is the last item'. The content of a feed block is usually a list of links to the most recent 5 items from that feed ... Your goal may be better achieved by enhancing feed.module as opposed to creating a custom module. Either way is fine I suppose.
