Drupal has been a great site management system. It is called a content management system but there are some functions that would make it much more useful in that regard. I say it's a great site management system because it's great for managing a single site. If you want more than one site you need more than one instance of Drupal. There are some ways of prefixing table names and making it possible to put two instances of Drupal on a single server.
Taxonomy based RSS feeds would be a big help. It would be best to have the ability to have several different RSS feeds so people could subscribe to those feeds they are interested in. If a site owner chooses to they can allow for people to subscribe to various feeds based on taxonomy.
Sites based on taxonomy would be an even greater opportunity. This would probably be complicated to implement and would mean changing how configuration happens. Either there would be a specific taxonomy that routes nodes based on database prefix or there would be configuration kept in the database. The key would be that certain users would be able to access a separate back end and enter content that would route to one or more sites.
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taxonomy based feeds are already possible
see the drupal handbook page on taxonomy.
charlie
http://cyberdash.com/
Sites based on taxonomy
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this and what such a site would look like. Could you explain more clearly?
Great thanks
Cool I'll be using that a lot.
An example
Let's say I have several different sites. On one I keep mostly personal posts, family news, and things I'd like to have available for frends. On a seperate site I run a business and have posts related to options for customers and recent projects. A third site (password protected) is used by my work group to keep track of internal progress on a project. Since Drupal is a Content Management System and the logical place for all my information to go I would like to be able to 'publish' to all three sites using a fourth site. One of the taxonomies would be "sites" and would have a list personal, business, work, private and based upon that setting would show the content in one or more sites.
It would be possible to do by making a site basically only a news aggregator on the front page and subscribing to the proper RSS feeds but it would be nice to have all the functionality. It will still be some work but it seems this might be coming sooner than I thought.