Daily Archives: February 9, 2024

Ceci est une pipe

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I’ve been doinking around with pipes… I have like five Yahoo! user-ids and don’t know any of the passwords, in fact I didn’t know the ids until I went through the Yahoo! authentication challenge that always leaves you logged on and far from where you wanted to go. But I got there, and wasn’t entirely (though I was mostly) baffled. Maybe I can ask Shelley to explain it to me…

Tim O’Reilly says,

Yahoo! Pipes is a first step towards changing all that, creating a programmable web for everyone. Using the Pipes editor, you can fetch any data source via its… XML feed, extract the data you want, combine it with data from another source, apply various built-in filters (sort, unique (with the “ue” this time:-), count, truncate, union, join, as well as user-defined filters), and apply simple programming tools like for loops. In short, it’s a good start on the Unix shell for mashups.

Caterina Fake provides a lot of links to the devlopers and the current discussion. For me, it still centers on figuring out what the damn Yahoo! user-id actually is today. And, of course FlickR is forcing me to address that issue soon.

ceci n'est pas une fake

Channeling Johnny Blogger

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Sneak preview… next week I’ll have 750 depressed and aging words at “Time Goes By.”  Ronni has some work to do, so she has a few of us standing in for her.

Conversations are not markets.  Now you take the curmudgeonly Richard Bennett.  That opinionated fella gets more than his fair share of discussion around his belittlement of the concept of network neutrality, said belittlement based on a self-righteous right-wing world view that suggests that Ma Bell really does deserve a break.  Puh-leeze.  But for all his logical fallacies and impassioned personalization of the topic, he does add value simply by adding some friction to the oil on velvet tendency bloggers have to simply tell each other how groovy we are.

It’s in that spirit that I intend to challenge the assertions and unspoken assumptions of the grassroots identity movement.  Unless of course I find nothing to challenge because it is all so clear, so perfectly in alignment with my vision and values that I just grab a couple of virtual pom-poms and start cheerleading.  But, really, how likely is that?

(I just sent =dsearls a message from =Frank.Paynter via 2idi.  I wonder if I’ll get a response.)

Help desk…

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Thanx for the link, Henry.