That experiment thingy
Why’d I put up a post with just “shawl” and “shawl test” in it?
No, this is not some bizarre social experimentation. That comes later.
This was just a way to test out the new Yahoo! Pipes service. Go to pipes.yahoo.com and browse around. It’s an application that lets you take feeds from various sources and filter them, combine them, and do things with their content. It’s FREAKING SWEET!!!!
The results of my experiments the other day: the following feed, which will present you with any sock-related content from this site, Scout’s Swag, Dogs Steal Yarn, and a couple of other sites.
feed.
Note that I don’t really know how to publish a feed yet, so that link might cover your browser in Web barf. I make no warranties.
The shawl, you ask? What shawl? Oh, THAT shawl. *sigh* My mother’s leaving for Mexico tomorrow, and it’s not done yet. I’m going to see about typing with my toes for the rest of the day at work so I can finish up the remaining four or so rows of seed stitch.
*whimper*
February 12th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
The feed looks fine, although a bit plain. Cool idea, though!
I’m sorry you didn’t get the shawl finished. Does it REALLY need blocking before you take it to her?
February 12th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Are you trying to say I talk about socks too much?
February 12th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Thanks for posting this. “Pipes” maybe something I want to use for myself. I’ve gone crazy and created multiple blogs. I want something to combine numerous feeds into one. This is perfect.
I was checking out a WordPress plugin called BDP RSS Aggregator. The author uses Exec-PHP plugin to allow PHP statement on blog pages. I think that will allow you to call a feed into the page. I haven’t looked into that yet. But that maybe something you want to check out.
Good luck on the shawl. I am also hurrying to finish a shawl for my mother by Chinese New Year, which his this coming weekend!
DP RSS Aggregator:
http://www.ozpolitics.info/blog/?p=87
Exec-PHP 3.2:
http://bluesome.net/post/2005/08/18/50/
February 19th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
I feel so with-it now that you’ve told me about pipes. They might be worth playing around with…Like combining all of my knit blogs into one giant RSS feed. Bwahahaha!