Tis the season and ho ho ho! 

The JSONification of the River was a big hit, and now the river renderings are starting to get real beautiful. Here's the latest one.  

http://nicolasgallagher.com/rivers/wikileaks/  

Ain't she pretty!  

That's cool, I thought -- so what's next? Well I'm getting ready to do a really simple blogging tool, like the one we did in 2002, but even simpler. And I'm going to need to display the blog posts, so why not do it in a really modern way.  

1. JSONify the RSS from the blog. 

2. Render it in the browser in JavaScript. 

Yes! That's certainly worth a try. 

So this is what I did. 

1. I did a JSONified version of the feed for Scripting News. You'll see that it bears a strong resemblance to the XML version, from which it is derived. 

2. I did a JavaScript version that calls back to a local script which you must define called onGetRss. It renders the RSS however you feel it should be rendered. Have a look at the home page of scripting.com for some ideas. But don't stop there. Make it realllly beautiful.  

It's worth a note to say that now RSS has escaped the confines of XML. It's become a more general language for describing stuff that updates.