Throwing more JSON on the fire

  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.