As a finger exercise, I made another NewsBruiser plugin. Also I wanted to invalidate the NewsBruiser wiki page PluginList comment

As far as I know there are no non-core plugins yet.

Thus, Python owns us un-proudly presents: WordCountPlugin. Untar (tar xvfz) it to your local newsbruiser installation base directory and you'll see a "word count option" in the Entries tab of your NewsBruiser configuration.

Un-proudly because WordCountPlugin is really a shamefully over-simplified plugin and should probably be used with care. I use it myself, though. Report bugs to me directly.

The way I use word count in my work-flow is probably not the way everyone else would want to. If this is the case, let me know; maybe I'll enhance WordCount's functionality.