Yahoo Pipes

As I mentioned on a comment somewhere in the wiki, I have a favourite article about RSS newsfeeds (http://tinyurl.com/5vactlc) that describes the lots of things you can do with them. Like combine them, or using searchterms to filter the estuary into a river of information. It mentions one service www.mysyndicaat.com as a way of doing that, and taking a look it does look like it can do the job well with minimal fuss or advertisements. But ?I have heard of Yahoo Pipes for some time and I thought it might be fun to take a look. This article describes the process involved. I wanted to combine all of fellow student's blogs into the one feed rather than using Cormac's odpl file which gives seperate feeds for each in Google Reader - I'm going to compare both and see which is nicest to use.

http://howtotechtips.blogspot.com/2008/06/combine-feeds-with-yahoo-pipes.html

The trickyest bit was finding the real RSS feeds from each blog (the home page for a blog doesn't always work). Wordpress blogs often seem to hide the RSS/Atom link but adding '/feed/' to the url seems to go to the right place.

Anyway, here's the resultant RSS feed for everybody's blogs under the one feed (no comments - you'll need to click on the post title to be taken to the post in situ to see these):

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=0450109b84dc434ed904fe4b58e060f9&_render=rss