The Travelling Trini is travelling today, to Trinidad.

As I passed through the airline lounge lobby I was reminded of the best RSS reader, ever!

This RSS reader has solved almost everything that drags down most readers. It prioritizes, reflects local priorities, has incredibly relevant advertising, appropriate pictures and diagrams, is divided itself into multiple sections, never duplicates news items and can be read ‘during take-off and landing.’

It’s been under development continually for several hundred years. But alas the newspaper as we know it, may not be around much longer.

It’s very depressing to hear of newspapers unable to make a ‘go’ of it these days. And I don’t see how reading news on a computer, or even a phone is better.

In the incredibly rich info-world we live in, if I want to find out what is likely to be important, what I need to know, what is locally relevant and never read the same news item twice; I read my local newspaper. There is a good chance that a professional news gathering and editorial team will do a better job than I can.

Sure there is plenty of reason to subscribe to vastly technical and geeky newsfeeds about your obscure interests. But how a web page or software program is going to piece together a summary of the news of the day, ensure it is in the same voice and deliver in for pennies I’ll never know.

The best part?

I can ignore the “please store your computers, iPods and phones” for takeoff and landing bit.