>My question is: Is there a way to "cut" some of the pheed
>from being posted?

John,

Not if you use the pheed from the page. However, if you use the search results you can adjust the amount of "content".

Just copy/paste the first 8-12 words from a page into the advanced search box and fill out the options.

http://www.pheeds.com/bib/search.cgi?