Mark and I had a great phone call yesterday. He is managing a much larger community than mine and made a very good case for using sitemap.xml for getting new forum posts indexed more quickly. It serves a similar purpose to blog pinging, only for forums. Plus, Mark had success with this approach in the past.
For part 2 of your question regarding the rest call. I started another post, List urls for posts made in the last 24 hours in the Everything Studio board. Lithium gurus have been doling out a lot of REST info over there lately.
Jake, thanks for the static sitemap.xml tip. We get ours tonight!
