Trends of Customizable News Pages... and what it means for you

The NYTimes.com launched their customizable RSS feed display today.    It looks like a relatively similar play to MyNewsweekor AOL’s new recently launched widget-based page.

I think we can spot a trend.  Traditional news services are leveraging the blogosphere and external feeds to aggregate information for their readers.   

 This is a valuable heads up display for content at a glance when you can see your weather, your e-mail (YahooMail or GMail), and a few of your favorite columnists.

Newsvine is one of the most popular Web 2.0 news aggregators and could have spawned this entire trend.  Near-Time’s syndication feature is of a similar mindset of bringing content into your collaboration space.  

So the take home point—  the trend is here to stay.