Alright I have had too many little issues with Yahoo Pipes that it just isn’t working out for me. All I want to do is combine 2 of my feeds into one, sort by Publish Date and ensure they are unique by Title (so there are no duplicates) then truncate (limit) them to 10 posts. This does not seem to be working properly and it seems to be getting more confusing every time I refresh the pipe. Perhaps I do not have my filtering properly, who knows.
It just does not work nicely and people have been expressing various issues with my RSS Feed and I don’t like how I have been accidentally spamming people’s subscriptions. It was also reported to duplicate the Social Networking links over and over to an almost infinite loop.
So for the mean time there are two separate RSS feeds: one for my blog here at Tyler Ingram dot Com and the other one for my photo blog. Though if you follow me in Twitter I do automate my Blog posts for both sites using Duane Storey’s WordTwit WordPress plugin. The plugin allows me to automatically send a tweet out about a new blog post here over over at my photo blog.
Perhaps I will look at writing up a WordPress plugin to allow me to import RSS feeds into my blog here (hopefully seamlessly) so that people need only to subscribe to 1 RSS feed. The other option I will probably look at is display my RSS feed for my photo blog here on Tyler Ingram dot Com. Or you can just visit both sites with ease and at your own leisure right?
I do apologize for any crazy RSS feed issues you might experience with my two site. I am looking at other solutions and for now I have just reverted back to the regular separate RSS feeds.
Hopefully I can figure out Yahoo Pipes properly and work out the kinks. Merging RSS feeds can be really handy, I just have to do it properly.
SeanNov 04, 2008 at 17:00:25
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One thing that I don’t know if you considered before you did this Yahoo Pipes thing is this: did you ask people if they wanted a combined feed?
I don’t know about other people, but the sudden change was kind of jarring to me. I know it’s your website and all, but I think the change could have been handled better. Like putting up a post announcing that you have a new feed that combines both sites RSS feeds into one, instead of just kinda hijacking their RSS feed.
Sorry to hear that the Yahoo Pipes thing didn’t work though. Sounded like a nice piece of tech, but turned out to be another thing that looks good on paper, but doesn’t do well in the real world.
Cheers,
Sean
Cam TardiNov 25, 2008 at 22:40:55
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I’d have to agree with Sean.
I do really like the combined feed idea, given that they are all essentially your blog, I currently read both this one and your photo blog.
I like to rely on outside services as least as possible, but that’s just me being me. If all of your blogs are running on the same server, have you looked into creating your own automated feed by polling both databases? Maybe have 3 different feeds, one for each site, and one combining both?
Hmm, what about even users being able to choose based on a unique id passed in the feed url?
Tyler Ingram November 26th, 2008 at 06:18:02[Link]
Yea so I changed it and had a couple day of issues
Ah well it should be better. The Yahoo Pipes feed is working. I figured out why it was acting funny. So I do have 3 feeds. One for this blog, one for my photo blog and then a combination of the two that is done by Yahoo Pipes.