I know I’m not alone in having a lack of confidence in the journalistic ability of Michael Arrington’s employees over at TechCrunch – MG Siegler’s outrage over Microsoft’s latest (rather sad) marketing efforts is just the latest to draw annoyed comments. With 20-30 posts per day, it gets pretty time-consuming just trying to filter the good stories from the bad, since all that Google Reader gives you is the headline and the start of the body: [Image] Wouldn’t it be nice to also know who wrote that headline so that you knew better how to interpret it? Well, you can do so quite easily, in three simple steps. Step 1: Create a Yahoo Pipe Go to http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit [Image] Step 2: Configure your Pipe Add the following modules: Sources – FetchFeed Operators – Loop String – StringBuilder (drag onto the Loop module) Configure and connect as below, then save. [Image] Step 3: Subscribe to your new feed: [Image] Or, if all that’s too complicated, you can just subscribe to the Pipe I created: http://pipes.yahoo.com/austegard/tcwa PS! Here’s a filtered feed for Michael Arrington posts only: http://pipes.yahoo.com/austegard/tcma
posted by Oskar Austegard at 7:56 PM on Jun 15, 2009
"3 steps to a better Tech Crunch (feed)"
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