May 16, 05:28 am: Two NPTech Pipes

pipesInspired by Marshall’s excellent post on using an RSS setting up a microsite, I decided to spend a bit playing with Yahoo! pipes, Aide RSS, dapper, and feed.informer. The result? NpTech Digest and NPTech Popular. Both are based on the same set of feeds — nptech from del.icio.us and technorati and a selection of searches in run in Google’s blogsearch. The NPTech digest is the various feed items, run through feed.informer to de-dup (though that wasn’t actually necessary) and then cleaned up a bit to remove bold tags from the headline (thanks for the help there, Marshall). The NPTech Popular takes the same set of feeds, runs them through AideRSS, puts the popular items RSS feed into Yahoo! pipes, cleans up the headlines and sorts by popularity. I probably could have done this in a more elegant way but it does work, I think. I still want to do some more tinkering here to get to a better understanding of how to use this. And my search feeds could absolutely use refinement (they are pretty simply and there could be a few more set up to capture more synonyms — like charity, npo, nonprofit, non-governmental organization, ngo, etc). But it’s a start.


Anyhow, I’m sharing the link to the pipes above on the off chance that anyone else finds ‘em useful. You can subscribe, embed, share as you may wish.

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Marnie Webb  |