I have nothing against Duffbert – really! I think he’s a stand-up guy. I appreciate his interest in doing book reviews but I really only want his posts on everything else. To make it possible I created my very first YAHOO! Pipe. It’s so very cool it’s almost indescribable. What I did was to add a feed component with the URL of Duffbert’s main feed, added a filter component to block all items where the title contains “Book Review” (the filter component understands that it is filtering a RSS feed and gives me the fields from the feed to filter by) and pipe that to the output (see below). Simple and effective.
Once the pipe had been created I simply subscribed to that feed instead. What’s really cool is that if I would rather have a JASON feed to include in the web-page I simply have Pipes change the output format for me! Sweet!
If you haven’t looked at YAHOO! Pipes yet you really owe it to yourself to do it.
Pretty cool! I’ll have to look at that myself. I knew that Yahoo Pipes existed, but I hadn’t downloaded and played with it.
Of course, the evil side of me now wants to muck with my “Book Review” header just to mess you up. 🙂
HHm. Is that the future of the composite application editor in R8++?
Awsome find!
I was able to implement exactly what you have described, then added the feed to my google reader.
I’ve actually created 2 feeds, one for just book reviews and one with no book reviews.
I think that the actual implementation is a little goofy and overly graphical which added un-needed complexity, but the idea is awsome, I can’t wait for someone else to implement it better. Im sure some people upon being presented with the editing screen would be look at it as a puzzle to be explored, I didn’t.
@Duffbert, evil is bad. I’d drop your feed.