I have been playing around with Yahoo Pipes and have through trial and error (and very little actual knowledge), created an RSS newsfeed of ant news. It can be found here. It's very basic at the moment and I would definitely like to play around with it some more, but I am quite pleased with it. Yahoo Pipes seems to be fairly intuitive to use, even for someone who isn't even really sure what an RSS is, so others should be able to figure it out, too. I tried to do something similar with uBioRSS, but I found it kind of confusing and gave up after awhile. I did, however, use the UBioRSS feeds in my Yahoo Pipes creation, so it was useful. Please take a look. I would appreciate any feedback on this.
In which I will be keeping track (for my own benefit) of my daily progress in the identification of the ant fauna of Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Ecuador, the analysis of that data, and the pursuit of my PhD. And (for the benefit of everyone else) I hope to provide helpful information on ants, taxonomy, database management, identification, and other assorted endeavors. Cheers
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
The Ant Room Newsfeeder
I have been playing around with Yahoo Pipes and have through trial and error (and very little actual knowledge), created an RSS newsfeed of ant news. It can be found here. It's very basic at the moment and I would definitely like to play around with it some more, but I am quite pleased with it. Yahoo Pipes seems to be fairly intuitive to use, even for someone who isn't even really sure what an RSS is, so others should be able to figure it out, too. I tried to do something similar with uBioRSS, but I found it kind of confusing and gave up after awhile. I did, however, use the UBioRSS feeds in my Yahoo Pipes creation, so it was useful. Please take a look. I would appreciate any feedback on this.
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