yesterday I logged about the fact that I was and am using MyHeadlines made by
Mike Agar. I think it rules big-time and I like it the way it is developed. The forthcomming 4.0.5 version is even more interesting as it will be more configurable.

Mike solved a number of issue’s Drupal has also:
Any title or description containing the “‘” (apostraphe) gets smacked by the Database. This has been solved by MyHeadLines (Mike) and Dennis is happy again.

Try the stuff here:
Or are you scared??