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Buddy Love WordPress Widget allows you to display a configurable number of the latest headlines from sites in your WordPress blogroll. If you have specified a picture in the “Image Address” field for each link in your blogroll, the custom picture will appear to the left of headlines pulled from that site. The plugin makes use of caching, so it is extremely fast.
Some Features:
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<li>Each site can have its own icon shown beside its headlines.</li>
<li>The links can be set to “nofollow” if your headlines are coming from paid sources.</li>
<li>The number of links shown is configurable.</li>
<li>Buddy caches your feeds to keep things running fast and smooth.</li>
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Buddy Love

Allows you to show a random sampling of headlines from sites listed in your WordPress blogroll.

iamgarrett

Google’s Blogger tool has a great blogroll gadget, which I’ve always wanted in WordPress. I tried a few plugins that advertised similar behavior but was never quite satisfied – so I made my own.
This will grab all your links with a category of ‘sidebar’ and show them in a list on your sidebar. Specify each link’s RSS/Atom feed address and it will grab the latest post, a link, and reorder the list based on when these posts were written. It only requires that you have jQuery and PHP and uses the Links and Widget section already included in WordPress.

Good Reads

An ordered blogroll widget for your sidebar that displays your favorite blogs, what they're writing, and when.

Buddy Love vs Good Reads