Feeds.
June 22nd, 2008 | Published in Scherer Cybrarian, Stump the Researcher, tools | 1 Comment
A loyal reader asks: Thanks to you, now I get most of my news and information in an RSS feeder. I use Netvibes, by the way. Anyway, there are still lots of sites without RSS. I am so over getting email newsletters or checking sites – say the Drudge Report – every day. What can I do?
Glad you asked.
We recently found a great way to handle that. We mentioned it in our last newsletter, but you might have missed it. And it’s worth repeating. (there are others, but we think this is the bomb!)
Feedity is a great service that creates RSS feeds for web pages without a web syndication format. It will take virtually any web page, and convert it into a fully formed RSS document. (the picture below is theirs…)

Feedity makes it so incredibly easy for anyone to set up. You can instantly track and monitor web site changes at a page level. Just create an RSS feed for the web page, and subscribe it in any RSS newsreader (on the web, in a desktop software, or via e-mail).
Feedity also provides for a simple way to build a data “pipeline” using Yahoo Pipes. Check out their Webpage-to-RSS pipe. Without it, it’s not for the meek, for sure!
Good luck.


As alternative, consider Antergi (http://www.antergi.com) — it will make a better feed for pages like the Gallena University news page featured above because the feeds it produces include the relevant text from the page, not just links.