CWOB without tweets
February 7, 2010 at 8:49 AM by Dr. Drang
Looking through my RSS reader this morning, I noticed that Andy Ihnatko has installed a WordPress plugin that collects and summarizes his Twitter stream from the previous day and publishes it as a blog post on the Celestial Waste of Bandwidth.1 Since I
- subscribe to his RSS feed
- follow him on Twitter, and
- don’t feel the need to read everything twice,
I’ve used Yahoo! Pipes to create a customized feed that filters out the Twitter summary posts.
The URL for the feed is at this link.
Regular readers of this blog may be arching their eyebrows. Didn’t Dr. Drang inflict exactly the same sort of redundancies on us last year? Yes, I did, and I’m sorry for it. In my defense, I’ll point out that I
- linked to Pattrick Mosby’s Pipes filter, which filtered out the posts with my tweets;
- later provided my own Pipes filters that did the same thing; and
- eventually dropped the Twitter posts entirely.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Andy go through the same steps.
Update 2/17/10
I think Andy has turned off the daily Twitter update, but a few days ago a weekly Twitter summary showed up in my RSS reader. I’ve reworked the above-linked Yahoo! Pipes filter to get rid of those, too. The screen shot shows the current filter.
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Ah, I remember when it was just a Colossal Waste of Bandwidth. ↩
