My world outline now has a feed. 

http://static.reallysimple.org/worldoutline/dave/rss.xml 

As you would expect, when I post new documents to the outline they appear in the feed. 

The reason I did this today, what led me to this right now was something at Google, whcih is why it is of interest on Scripting News. 

I was looking into how I could get Google's search engine better looped-in with changes in my outline. Along the way I found out why the connection between the two was broken, why none of my pages were showing up in Google's search engine. This was a good bug to fix!  

On the way to fixing this, I noticed two things: 

1. They're saying that you don't need to do sitemaps if the navigation system of your site takes you to every page. With the World Outline that is certainly true. 

2. They will take RSS in place of sitemaps.  

So I spent the time adding a feed, which is of course useful in many other contexts. 

So now I have this feed hooked up to Google's back-end. 

I love it when things like this just plug in. Boom!