Does anyone know how to get something like Google Alert functionality out of Google Scholar. What I'd really like is an RSS feed updating me on when colleagues/archrivals publish papers.

Thanks.

with those alert services like trackengine you could use the url but I doubt about rss

Thanks for the suggestion. Mentioning those web alert services made me realize that it's not too hard to go one step further and just write a screen-scraping perl script to check the search results and then generate an RSS feed which updates when something changes.