[NMLUG] Really specific syndication

[kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com (Kelly Jones)]

RSS is a great way to keep up w/ specific news items, changes to web
pages, etc, but I'm interested in only very specific things. For
example, I want to receive an email (or an IM/fax/page/text
message/phone call/etc) when any of the following things happen:

* Comedian Bob Newhart dies

* Prince Charles III ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom and
  her empires

* The (as-yet-unmade) movie "Spell For Chameleon" is released on DVD

Is there any service that will notify me just when specific things
like this happen?

I realize I could just subscribe to Entertainment/British newsfeeds
and/or obituaries, but that would be overkill: I only want to be
notified when the 3 events above occur, not anything else.

I considered things like subscribing to related newsfeeds and grepping
and/or watching the relevant Wikipedia pages for changes (and, again,
grepping for words like "died", "DVD release", "King", etc), but this
seems kludgey.

I also realize no website/service could possibly keep a list of all
possible future events (things like DVD releases and famous people's
deaths are easily categorized, and things like Charles becoming King
are pretty important, but I could see where every possible future
event would be hard to list), so this is more of a general thought/question.

Any thoughts? Apologies if this doesn't belong here: as my questions
get more esoteric, I'm not quite sure where to post them.

P.S. Thanks to everyone who helped w/ the power supply issue-- I got
it replaced and things are working fine.

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