if (! ("console" in window) || !("firebug" in console)) {var names = ["log", "debug", "info", "warn", "error", "assert", "dir", "dirxml", "group", "groupEnd", "time", "timeEnd", "count", "trace", "profile", "profileEnd"]; window.console = {}; for (var i = 0; i <names.length; ++i) window.console[names[i]] = function() {};} if (window.location.search.indexOf("bug=de") == 1) { DebugMode = true; } else { DebugMode = false; }

$(document).ready(function(){
   if (DebugMode == true) {console.log("YourBiz JSON Blog feed v0.76");}
   $.get("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/proxy/proxy.asmx/GetWSString?DestinationKey=YourBizJSON&Parameters=%3Cparams%3E%3Cparam%3E%3Cname%3Ex%3C/name%3E%3Cvalue%3E1%3C/value%3E%3C/param%3E%3C/params%3E&Passkey=1", function(data){
      //strip out Mothership's XML
      var proxyXML = $(data).find("string").text();
      //convert to JSON again with JSON object library
      var jObject = JSON.parse(proxyXML);
      console.log(jObject);        
      //parse JSON and build objects
      $.each(jObject.items, function(i,item){
         //for each post in the JSON feed (up to the limit below), do the following
         
         var post = $(document).find("#blogfeed"); //place the posts go
         var _link = ""; //string to build and insert 
         
         //start markup block
         _link += "<div class='story'><div class='text'><div>";
         
         //first-post check
         var first = 6; if (i == 0) {first = 4};
         //add link
         _link += "<h" + first + "><a href='" + item.link + "' title='Go to full blog post'>" + item.title + "</a></h" + first + ">";

         //add abstract
         _link += "<p class='abstr'>";
         
            //add abstract content if first post
            if (i == 0) {
               _link += item.description + "&#8230; <a href='" + item.link + "' title='Go to full blog post' class='abstr-link'>Full story</a><br />";
            }
            //manipulate and add date (after objectification)
            var bDate = new Date(item.pubdate); var cpuDate = new Date();
            var fulldate = bDate.toString();
            //get day/hour/min
            var day = fulldate.substr(0,3); var hour = bDate.getHours(); var min = bDate.getMinutes();
            //normalization of minutes string
            if (min < 10) {min = "0" + min;}
            //add am/pm
            var ad = " a.m."; if (hour > 12) {hour = hour-12; ad = " p.m.";}
            _link += "<span class='timestamp'>" + day + ", " + hour + ":" + min + ad + "</span>";
            //add comments
            var commcnt = item.comments;
            if (commcnt == 0) {commcnt = "No"};           
            _link += "&#160;&#160;(<span class='comm'>" + commcnt + " comments</span>)";
         
         //close abstract
         _link += "</p>";

         //wrap up markup block
         _link += "</div></div></div>";
         
         //add the individual post content
         post.append(_link);
         
         //stop loop at post index X
         if ( i == 4 ) return false;
      });
   });
});