We have an atom feed on our front page. It's sort of similar. It uses xml and we run it through blogger so its easier to update with news. My team can post things to it from home, by e-mail, or whatever.
It's been kind of barren, and as the site is in its first year and incomplete. I'm the coder, and I'm rather new at it.
here it is
If nothing else, it means you don't have to update the entire page.