Last night I published my own river at http://river.xangelo.ca. I’m hoping that soon you’ll be able to subscribe to it via the RSS with eventual support for rss cloud. Maybe I’ll even throw in support for JSON. That way, you can run your own river if you want.
Building was actually a lot simpler than I initially thought. I ended up powering the entire system using limonade-php and SimplePie. For the front end I used Baseline.css, jQuery and a little JavaScript module-based system that I’ve been working on.
The system is simple, a GET run on /river will return the last.. 6 hours worth of river in JSON and a timestamp. Just keep GET‘ing that /river with a query string of last_checked = timestamp and you’ll get a JSON update.
So yes, have fun with river.. I’ll be mucking about with the update frequency over the next few days.
