Agreed. A worthy successor to google reader.

Not having RSS is a pain. I follow blogs that update every couple of months. Do I want to keep checking? Hell no.

I use websec for a few such blogs, it emails me the content and even highlights the changed parts in the page.

It's a program I inherited after it was abandoned and did some maintenance on so I'm biased, I haven't updated it for a long while now and for a time even wrote a python alternative since I actually dislike Perl.

It can be found at http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/