I read about Twitter on one of the feeds I read using Vienna the other day. I thought, “Neat, but I don’t really see a use for it personally, much less pedagogically.” I may have even said that out loud. I clicked through and looked over the site. And I moved on to another tab. I had also seen something on D’Arcy Norman’s site about Yahoo! Pipes, and Jay (any day now) had talked about Pipes earlier in the week. Another tool I clicked through to, played for a few minutes, and left open in a tab.

Today, I signed up for a Twitter account. No big deal. I spent some time reading the LifeHacker article on it, even took the time to add it to my del.icio.us (which is a tool I have known about for way too long without using).

I went into an instructional session on our internal project management tool. At the end, we spoke briefly about the internal wiki. The conversation Jonah, Elizabeth and I had been having about important office RSS feeds was cited, and it was pointed out that the crucial feeds are on the main wiki page. I took a minute to look into the <rss> tag.

After the meeting, I dumped my Twitter feed into my wiki user page. Ugly!!! Too much information. It hit me, though, as I ran to the train, that I could send that RSS feed into Pipes and have it spit out some content for me that can then be repurposed. As soon as I get home.

Home, and twenty minutes with pipes, I have twipe. It ain’t pretty, but it shows up okay in mediawiki.

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