Well crafted,with a few spelling errors. As an independent voice from the blog world the author does an excellent job pitching Yahoo Pipes (a new relational tool) being rolled out this month. There are shades of marketing embedded but the writing was entertaining, persuasive, and informative

I haven't played with Yahoo! Pipes (disclosure) but I've written personal mashups and things that work like pipes. The piece does a pretty good job, if slanted towards the technical crowd, of explaining what the product is all about. It's not likely anyone but techies will play with Pipes for a while until some useful examples emerge that are easy for real people to tweak. This somewhat breathless and definitely enthusiastic piece points interested geeks at a potentially interesting (and potentially uninteresting) tool. Try Dave Winer's comments (linked) for maybe why, in the long run, uninteresting (or not as Yahoo can do some things as he notes).