highlighting multiple blogs with yahoo pipes

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HIGHLIGHTINGMULTIPLE BLOGS

LORRAINE NICHOLS

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ENGAGEMENT

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THE IDEA

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AFTER MANY ITERATIONS

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YAHOO PIPES ALLOWED US TO:

• Aggregate multiple blog RSS feeds• Append text at the beginning of the blog post title • Add an image and teaser text from the post• Aggregate all the feeds together • Sort by date • Choose the latest item by each author• Set how many items to show

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PREREQUISITES

• Each blog must have an RSS feed that works well with Yahoo Pipes, e.g. WordPress.com• HTML knowledge• Your web site needs to have a way to read the RSS feed that Yahoo Pipes creates

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FETCH FEED

http://cesaualberta.wordpress.com/feed/

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APPEND TEXT IN FRONT OF TITLE

• Cooperative Education Students Association:

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ADD IMAGE WITHIN A TABLE

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ADD IMAGE WITHIN A TABLE

<table><tr><td><a href=“http://cesaualberta.wordpress.com"><img src=“http://apps.business.ualberta.ca/RSS/Bloggers/Tammy.jpg“ align="left"></a></td><td>item.description</td></tr></table>

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UNION ALL THE FEEDS TOGETHER

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SORT THE POSTS BY DATE

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ONLY ONE ITEM PER AUTHOR

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DECIDE HOW MANY ITEMS YOU WANT

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PIPE THE OUTPUT

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ADD THE RSS FEED TO YOUR WEB SITE

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LINKS

Yahoo Pipes: Lorraine Nicholshttp://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/lorrainenichols