Saturday, December 01, 2007

Using Blogs for Web Site Design

It seems to me that lists are adequate to represent most of the content in our web sites. And blogs serve adequately as lists. In addition, content can be exported in standard formats. Blogs are easy to manipulate. And, additionally they make sense by themselves. With processors like Yahoo! Pipes out there now, content from blogs can be processed in useful ways.

My content content of lists of
--my bio (a singleton)
--my various degrees
--my publications
--work experience
--books I've read
--photos
--book's I've read
--movies I've seen
an so on.

I'm going to create a blog corresponding to each list I wish to maintain and use Yahoo! Pipes like software to create a coherent web site out of them. Why do I need to maintain a resume? I'll just have a processor merge feeds I need to create a resume, export the result into a format from which I can generate PDF and send it around.

There are various other ways in which other can use my content to create mashups. Why should people add to their HTML pages anymore! Just blog and mash.