What Robb Knight is doing to gather data for his website is similar to what I’m thinking of doing with my last.fm data. Except I’m not dealing with JSON. I’m grabbing the data as XML. I’ll process it with XSLT.
Is it old technology? Sure. But I’m building my website with shell scripts, sed, awk, and a makefile. So old tech fits right in.
Nothing against how Robb Knight is doing things, but I only like dealing with node and JavaScript when I’m getting paid.