RSS For Sites Without Feeds

Problem: RSS feeds and readers are becoming more and more popular. This is because they allow content from your favorite blogs (and some websites) to be delivered to you, rather than you having to go get the content. This value has been augmented by "pipes", which let you filter and adjust the content that you receive in RSS feeds. However, for sites that do not provide RSS feeds, you need to remember to check them on a periodic basis. Such sites are typically forgotten over time, and you may miss out on valuable content.

Solution: There are a few ways that sites without XML-defined RSS feeds could still be fed into an RSS reader. One way would be to check a site for changes, and then push whatever changes are observed into a manufactured RSS feed. Second, there could be a tool that does a screen capture of a site at a regular interval (e.g. daily) and pushes this into an RSS type feed. Lastly, perhaps a bot can go to a site and push the HTML from the site directly into your RSS reader at some regular interval. It seems to me that any of these approaches, although cludgy, would provide at least some capability for monitoring sites that do not play well with RSS.