If you use Google's Gmail, they have a Web Clips feature which shows a fresh news headline every time a new page is loaded. You can customize this for Second Life news.

Here's what I did:

It should look something like this:

Gmail Web Clips 1


Now, when you're doing your email, you can take a quick peek at what's happening in the ever-burgeoning Second Life blogosphere!

  Gmail Web Clips 2