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Piped music ensemble of NPG blogs

Pipes is a new application from Yahoo that lets the user "remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment". Although this is rather technically expressed, Pipes is a graphical environment for a specific type of programming that takes the form of a kind of flowchart. It is a browser-based application that lets the user input RSS feeds, then filter them for text, images or other data -- which the user can then process and merge with other feeds, making the output (another RSS feed) reusable for anybody. There are lots of good examples on the Pipes site.
A more detailed commentary on Pipes, calling the application "a milestone in the history of the Internet" can be found on O'Reilly Radar, but there are plenty of other analyses on many Internet sites and blogs.
Alf Eaton at Nature Publishing Group has already created a pipe of all the NPG blogs, by combining their RSS feeds and filtering by user-defined keywords. Have a try, at the link provided.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pCo8Tmy32xG5lPXzXqIxGw/


Posted by Maxine Clarke on February 12, 2007
Categories: Communication, Public and media | | Comments (0)

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