The End of Kirkus Reviews Brings Anguish and Relief - NYTimes.co. State of the Art - Twitter Is What You Make It. HOW TO: Make a Widget From Any New York Times Feed. NYTimes.com has launched a Times Widgets platform to let users create custom widgets from the more than 100,000 RSS feeds available.
The widgets can then be embedded on iGoogle, Netvibes, Blogger, Vox, or personal websites and blogs. Here's a quick 3 step rundown of how to make a widget packed with New York Times goodness. It's not exactly rocket science, anyone with a basic understanding of RSS could have managed something similar previously, but it is a short and sweet process to getting a custom view of New York Times content for your site or start page. Watch out for Page Not Found errors, the platform is still in beta, and was a little buggy for this widget-making master, but take a deep breath, hit refresh, and that should solve the problem. 1.