Finally got blackboard to talk to google docs and yahoo

the wikis in blackboard are sending out an rss feed of student blog urls. Google docs collects this feed and turns it in to a CSV feed. The CSV feed is needed for yahoo pipes to break the data into rss feed data. So a yahoo pipe collects the table data, finds the rss feeds for each url, then returns all the stings for that feed.

All this means that students who are writing blogs can paste their url into the bb wiki, and then students and lectures can receive those in a single mixed feed. they are now linked together.

This mini project was for the art and design academy, but unfortunately i'm not sure that they will ever use it. So I want someone to use it out thereso my hard work comes to something. See previous posting for more details

the wikis in blackboard are sending out an rss feed of student blog urls. Google docs collects this feed and turns it in to a CSV feed. The CSV feed is needed for yahoo pipes to break the data into rss feed data. So a yahoo pipe collects the table data, finds the rss feeds for each url, then returns all the stings for that feed.

All this means that students who are writing blogs can paste their url into the bb wiki, and then students and lectures can receive those in a single mixed feed. they are now linked together.

This mini project was for the art and design academy, but unfortunately i'm not sure that they will ever use it. So I want someone to use it out thereso my hard work comes to something. See previous posting for more details

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