The Power of Yahoo Pipes

June 28, 2008 08:20.30 PM

A few years back, Yahoo released Yahoo Pipes as a new tool to create your own RSS feeds. The tool is something I've only used once in the past then let it slip away like many web apps do nowadays. There is a lot of stuff out there to read but it's often hard to find it. Whether you're going to CNN.com, Google News, or you're using your own Feed aggregator, it's always difficult to filter what you really want to read. I either find myself reading through stuff I have no interest in or finding articles on my topic of interest with little supporting content.

On my first experiment last year, I wanted to create a feed for Steelers articles that came from as many news sources as possible. I didn't always want to deal with the annoyance of going through ESPN.com looking for the right articles. I'd rather the articles come to my Google Reader so it takes as little time and effort as possible. The feed I created pulls in feeds from Google News, ESPN, and the Steelers blog site. It checks for duplicates and sorts by any order I want.

It's published here

Here's the picture of how Yahoo Pipes works:

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Sex and the City - erggghhh

June 09, 2008 10:00.59 PM

Alright... so I will admit that I saw the Sex and the City movie last week because

1. It's a guilty pleasure of mine
2. My odds were incredible... there were 400 women.

I normally don't care to give my opinions on movies because rarely are personal opinions worthwhile since everyone seems to have one when it comes to movies. All the girly stuff, the drama, the cheesy love story aside, there was one huge mistake that made no sense. Jennifer Hudson's character was Louise, the new girl in town playing Carrie's personal assistant while she got her life back on track. Alright, here's the huge problem...

She recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science. C'monnnnn, there's no way in hell, she'd be a personal assistant. I know there's people out there who go to NYC looking for themselves but they portrayed her as this poor kid right out of college with no leg to stand on.

Yes, it's a movie... I know. Being the nerd that I am, I had to document my complaint because I'm pretty sure I was the only person in the theater who even noticed it.

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