I keep a public schedule on sccs, which I maintain with a script. To get this available in org-mode in the agenda view, I needed to:

• modify the schedule script to create schedule.org in addition to schedule.ical.
• set up cron on my laptop to automatically download it every 5min
• tell org-mode about it:

          (setq org-agenda-files (list "~/todo.org"
                                       "~/schedule.org"))
          

• tell emacs to automatically refresh files from disk when they update if I've made no changes to them within emacs (which I already wanted):

          (global-auto-revert-mode 1)
          

Now I see scheduled tasks in agenda-view:

Week-agenda (W34):

Monday     22 August 2011 W34

Tuesday    23 August 2011

Wednesday  24 August 2011

todo:       Scheduled:  poke sound commitee

Thursday   25 August 2011

todo:       Sched. 2x:  poke sound commitee

todo:       In   3 d.:  TODO pick dances for 9/5

todo:       In   6 d.:  TODO aug reconcile

Friday     26 August 2011

schedule:   19:30...... dave and miranda's going away party (399B #4 broadway cambridge)

Saturday   27 August 2011

schedule:   20:00...... free raisins play kingston (kingston nh)

-UUU:%*--F1  *Org Agenda*   All L15    (Org-Agenda Week Ddl Grid Filladapt Fill)--[0:25 (org-mode)]-----

Reverting buffer `schedule.org'.

(they're the ones labeled 'schedule' instead of 'todo')