Using RSS feeds for software updates. I was pleased to notice that the folks at pMachine offer RSS feeds for their software updates and bug fixes -- a smart use of the technology that may be common, but it's one I hadn't spotted before. The feeds come from their User Support Forum pages.

I believe they are creating this feed very easily because their forum is essentially a pocket version of their weblog page. That's a bonus feature, then.

I can't quite figure out, this late on a Friday afternoon, whether there is any additional virtue for teachers and students to read a forum in a news aggregator, but there is the feature all ready to go. Any ideas? Perhaps this would allow people to review several forum sites more quickly, just to see what's developing? [0 & P]