One known bug with the RSS feed: if it doesn't contain a pubDate field, ESME will post the item as a new one on every update, flooding your timeline.

Check out the hooks-actions branch again, the Rss and Atom feeds were overhauled and are now more robust.

actions and hooks seem not work completely: subscribing to an rss/atom-feed sends the rss url, but not the actual news,

Actually the hooks-actions branch of ESME already implements fetching Atom/RSS entries and posting to your message stream.

just thinking of an RSS-based news poster on esme, which posts to defined users/groups/tags on the arrival of new rss entries

Feeding blog.esme.us to my local ESME installation based on the hooks-actions branch.

@sudhirrs : might be interesting to link an RSS feed reader to esme, then you could track changes in the esme space