Using Yahoo Pipes to Combine Library Feeds

[Troy Swanson]

I have been playing Yahoo Pipes recently. I have taken the feeds from our library's blogs and podcasts and created a single feed with them: All MVCC Library Feeds. I don't know how many subscribers I'll actually get with this, but it was easy, so I figured it doesn't hurt. If there were a few people who subscribed to several of our feeds, they may want to subscribe to all them in one place.

[Jeff Scott]

Good idea. However, you may end up having an overwhelming amount of information. What I have learned is that infrequent and targeted is better than sending everything often.

[Troy Swanson]

Thanks, Jeff,
One thing that I've done to keep this from getting too crazy is that I've used the filter option in yahoo pipes to only include 2 posts for each blog or podcast, so at any one time there will only be 12 items in the Pipes RSS feed.

[Jeff Scott]

Good idea. An auto limit is great. I will have to talk to you more about your project. I would love to find a way to combine things, but then find a way to reduce the noise from the feeds.