GeoPrac.net is a blog and portal for geotechnical engineers, geological engineers and engineering geologists. This feed is an aggregation of various news feeds that might be of interest to our readers. I collect feeds from Geology.com, Google Earth Blog, American Rivers, ENR, iCivilEngineer.com, The…

Scrapes recent landslides from USGS page - http://landslides.usgs.gov/recent/ and then for each one listed, pulls the Meta Description from the link as the item's description.

Given a URL, pulls the content from the meta description tag and returns it as the only item. Useful as a sub-pipe for other scraping pipes. For an example of how to use it to populate the description of an item with the contents of the meta description tag, see…

Takes a comma delimeted list of search terms and returns results from Twitter's search. You can put more complicated search terms including those with negative keywords in quotation marks (for example "chocolate -snickers",twix,"Mars -planet -space -lander"). Tried to have…

Geo-referenced news from OregonLive.com, SeattlePi.com and other news feeds containing the keywords "landslide", "debris flow", "rockfall", and "mudslide". Powered by Yahoo Pipes. Check out GeoPrac.net for more cool stuff! http://www.geoprac.net

If you are aggregating multiple feeds, sometimes its nice to be able to tell which source an item is coming from. I like to add a tag or description of the blog or feed name to each item's title. This pipe is useful when inserted into another pipe and you can hard code the feed URL and the label…