mprove aggregation

After launching a bunch of blogs, I consider ways to aggregate the information for those who like to get the whole picture. Feedburner offers the nice feature to register feeds and get some scripts back to republish the content on web pages of your choice. This is what I did on mprove: blogs.
Furthermore, yahoo pipes is a visual programming system to merge, and sort, and filter feeds and information from other sources into new feeds. My first pipe takes my blogger feeds, my flickr stream, my del.icio.us updates and my Xing messages and assembles the content into mprove pipes. (BTW- does anyone know how to edit the pipe content on the fly? I like to change the title for the del.ici.us entries and maybe add the tags to the content.)
Now it is your choice to read, subscribe and republish the information you like.

Elements of Style

For a presentation I gave last week on the origin of patterns I found a quite condensed version of Christopher Alexander’s latest book “The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe”. The abridged version “Elements of Style” was featured by Wired in December 2003.
You can find my version in English and German at Slideshare.net:

(Let me know if anyone has high resolution images. Mine are a bit jagged.)