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A picture named daveTiny.jpgDave Winer, 56, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and editor of the Scripting News weblog. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.

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Dave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution.

My JSONP River of News Permalink.

I guess it works so here's the JSONP version of my River of News.

http://jsonp.scripting.com/daveRiver.json?callback=someRoutine

Refer to the writeup for the JSON version for an idea of what this is and what you can do with it.

# 12/9/2010; 10:46:49 PM.   .

JSONP questions Permalink.

A picture named accordion.gifA few developers are working on River of News readers with the JSON river my news app is producing.

There have been a bunch of requests that I support JSONP, which I am looking into.

I understand that JSONP is needed so you can access data on domains other than the one from which the page originates. I also understand how it works in a simple case where a small amount of JSON is being returned. But I'm returning 70K of JSON text and it includes tabs, carriage returns and linefeeds.

1. So the first question is -- should I strip out the whitespace characters?

2. Are there any characters that need to be escaped or neutered? In XML you'd be fine if you encoded left-angle-brackets.

3. What's the Content-Type? I'm using application/x-javascript for now. Is this correct?

I'm sure there are other questions. :-)

Update: There is now a JSONP version of the river.

# 12/9/2010; 8:34:10 PM.   .


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