Interesting news about the NY Times (thanks to JD Lasica) planning to open its web site to 3rd parties.

As JD points out this opens up a whole range of possibilites for people to access and manipulate data to provide a variety of applications. Many of these will be free but some I am sure could provide such a valuable service that there could be a charge for them. Newspapers could levy a small licensing charge so helping their declining revenue streams. A win-win?