The mention of Réussir Vigne seems to have perked up Capozzi Winery Island in the blogosphere. In addition to the previously mentioned coverage by Second Life Business Review, we’ve been recently noted in a couple of additional French blogs (here and here) as well as by the Snooth blog and prolific Flickr user Vieeto Voom.

To help keep track of Capozzi Winery Island on the web I have been using a combination of Technorati Watchlists and RSS alerts from other blog search engines tuned in to various keywords and phrases. The result until recently has been the need to sift through numerous feeds, weed out duplicate and self-generated posts and sort it all by date to find the newest references. While the task is certainly manageable (not to mention exciting) it seemed that there had to be a way to automate the more tedious aspects of the process.

Enter Yahoo Pipes. Admittedly a bit late to the party given the initial crush of users and reports of intermittent stability woes, I was nonetheless intrigued by the relatively friendly web-interface to a longstanding Unix convention for filtering and concatenation. Moreover I continue to be impressed by the cool things people are doing with it, including Max Case’s Babbler, a language translation tool working inside the Second Life client.

So while I’m really just incompetently scratching the surface with my pipe called “Capozzi Island on the Web” the resultant feed which you will now find in our sidebar has proven to be very useful, and if I can do it, you can too. Feel free to clone it as the basis for one of your own and perhaps help figure out why the date sorting doesn’t always work and/or confirm my suspicion that it is related to different RSS standards.

Personally Pipes is much more useful than Microsoft’s Popfly, whose primary function at this early stage seems to be for Redmond to drive installations of Silverlight and Virtual Earth.