Seeing a website as an RSS feed
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005
at 8:33 PM (permalink)
I've been thinking about rebuilding the architecture and some of the design of this site to adopt to tags and XML. I'm starting to see the site as a large feed reader for my own content. The intruiging part is that if I rebuild this site to work directly off of my RSS feed then it will work on anyone's feed. The site becomes simply a database app for a standard type of data. I've always thought as websites as the result of database programs, but the more I grok RSS as a delivery and storage mechanism the more opportunities I see for working with it as the core architectural structure rather than an export or import protocol. Hopefully these ideas will become more clear as I build the next iteration of this site.

