The NY Times is now providing its
own RSS feeds with several new categories including media and advertising, most-emailed, real estate, theater, Times on the Trail, multimedia, theater, Circuits, Week in Review and the Sunday magazine section. Previously, only the 3rd party
Userland feeds were available.
What wonderful things can be done with RSS can be seen in
this thread, where Montalvo posted a link to his script that makes RSS feeds handheld-friendly.