Modern Day Newspaper
Have you tried the NetNewsWire application for the iPhone?
It’s awesome.
Subscribe to your favorite sites using RSS through an online (free) version at Newsgator.com, use the (Recently) Free Mac Desktop version of NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire on the iPhone will synchronize your subscription list and pull all those stories from all those sites (my iPhone is currently displaying 2367 stories unread!) to your iPhone for local reading, you can switch off all your wireless functions, put the iPhone in Airplane Mode and go into a nuclear bunker, the playa, or an airplane, and all those stories are there in full glory waiting to be read.
If you’re new to RSS here are some great RSS feeds to begin with:
“iPhone” ads on Craigslist RSS Feed
Why did I feature these feeds? One very big reason, all three offer ‘Full’ Syndication, the posts that come through the RSS feed are the entire subject, uncut! Other Rss feeds like the Nytimes, BBC and even our own SFgate offer only short clips of stories in the RSS feed, avoid those, stick with good full feeds and embrace papers and journals that offer such RSS feeds, my favorite paper and electronic journal: Wired
Try out NetNewsWire Today
P.S. When you start getting too many feeds to handle on your iPhone, go to the newsgator website. Settings->Edit Locations->NetNewsWire iPhone/iPod-Touch — you can edit the feeds you get there! (thanks to davidbro)