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mood: good

For those who haven't heard of Pipes, it allows you to manipulate RSS data feeds into something that is more useful to you. I have know about Pipes for a while but hadn't come up with a good use for it. That changed last night when I decided to cut down some of the feeds that I read to a reasonable size.

I subscribe to the "Recent Posts" feed from RPG.net to keep up with some of the interesting things that are going on there. Unfortunately, the signal to noise ratio for those fora is significant and makes seeing anything useful nearly impossible. This is where Pipes comes in, I can set it up to filter the RSS feed from RPG.net and thus eliminate much of the noise and get the parts that I'm interested in reading.

I've also augmented it a forum feed from the new White Wolf fora that looks for Anathema and sends the results to me. This addition is particularly useful because I don't tend to frequent the WW fora and this will bring the results directly to my attention.