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I've done that just to read something when I feed my little baby.
I've done this under Linux, but it may work with some sreensavers with Windows.
The only requirement is that your screensaver must be able to read text file and pare it using an url only.

I use FEED ON FEEDS as web newsreader. The php script you'll find here works only with it, but it may be easily modified to work with another one. It randomly select one of the feeds I have syndicate and display it. The screensaver ask for it from time to time, so you have fresh news all the time.

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Put the following script in a text editor, modify lines 3 and 4 to suit your case,save it as a PHP file, put it on your webserver.

<?php
header("Content-type: application/xml");
$dbserver=mysql_connect("server","user","password");
$db=mysql_select_db("database",$dbserver);
$sql = "SELECT `url` FROM `px_feeds`";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
while ($feed=mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
$feeds[]=$feed[0];
}
$feed=$feeds[array_rand($feeds)];
$feedID=fopen($feed,"r");
while (!feof($feedID)) {
print fread($feedID, 8192);
}
?>

Get the url to access it, put this url as the text to use for the screensaver. Under Linux, you can do this in the Advanced tab of the screensaver settings :

The result is pretty good using the Phosphor screensaver, but may be great with others:

Let me know if you make this work with other screensavers (on both Linux and Windows) and how it looks like!