Distrifeeds

Distrifeeds - distributed feeds - is a unversal method to implement truly distributed/p2p systems of information exchange and processing.

Whatever information you produce, you publish as a feed. It can then be retrieved by anyone directly or through a proxy, named aggregator.

Things you produce now that can be published as feeds (instead of whatever methods you currently use):

• blogs
• open e-mails
  • mailing list posts
  • general announcements
  • replies to others' e-mails
• any wiki-like info
  • updates published as feeds, too

Principles

• as flexible as possible
• as structured as needed

Technical types of feeds

Probably any popular format would do (RSS/Atom), with some optional embedded meta-data and encouraged recursive model (publish links to stuff and other feeds).

Examples

Site crawlers