Presentation at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference, Kiev, Ukraine 14 October 2011

1. Get yourself ready
• Go to pipes.yahoo.com
• Register for a Yahoo! account if you
need one
• Sign up to Yahoo! Pipes
• Click on ‘Create a pipe’
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2. Pipe Eyes:
go beyond
alerts and RSS
Paul Bradshaw
OnlineJournalismBlog.com, Twitter.com/paulbradshaw
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3. In a nutshell...
• How to bring all your searches into
one place
• How to create an email and RSS
alert
• Knowing what else Pipes can do
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4. The basics
Inputs, operators, and outputs
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5. What can you do with Pipes?
• Aggregate and mash up
• Filter
• Translate
• Map
• Sort, count and search
• Reformat, publish and distribute
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6. Modules, canvas, debugger
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7. Sources and operators
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8. A simple aggregator
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9. RSS feeds are everywhere
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10. link
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11. Searches by RSS
• Google News Search, Yahoo News
• Technorati, icerocket, ljseek
• Search.Twitter.com, twitterlocal.net
• Flickr (via Yahoo! Pipes)
• video.google.com, YouTube, Vimeo
• Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit
• Boardreader
• Google Alerts (try adding
site:facebook.com or site:gov.ru etc.)
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14. Trouble-shooting
RSS feed doesn’t work? Try putting it
through Feedburner.com to create a
new one
Results clustering? Use the Sort
module to put them in date order
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19. String, user input and URL
modules
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20. Building a custom meta-search
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21. Building a custom meta-search
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22. String and user input modules
See http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/01/26/creating-query-forms-in-google-spreadsheets-sort-of/
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23. Finding and cloning
pipes
Standing on the shoulders of giants
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25. Scraping
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26. Filtering an XML feed
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27. Renaming a CSV feed
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28. Links
Delicious.com/paulb/kiev11
Delicious.com/paulb/yahoopipes
OnlineJournalismBlog.com/tag/
yahoo-pipes
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