I have to say that NewsRaider (in my obviously biased mind) is the best way to find news stories that interest you. It was conceived largely because of dissatisfaction with RSS in terms of speed and availability.
Rather than use “artificial artificial intelligence” a la Google News or social networking in the Digg (Love the Digg podcast)vein, NewsRaider takes a different approach.
The idea is that if you can allow someone to speed browse a homogenous indexed array of diverse articles in the shortest time, then they will find the articles that interest them most efficiently and reliably. (That is the most long winded senstence I think I have ever written!!!)
My eyes scan probably 200 news articles a day in Newsraider, 20 of these I may read the first paragraph. 3 of them the full story.
If you haven’t tried it I suggest you do, its quite a liberating experience
NewsRaider Windows has the ability to upload to you own server so you can view the articles on your mobile phone at low data cost.
www.newsraider.com
NewsRaider is free on windows.
The Palm and PPC clients are commercial.
Thanks
Mat Ripley
Yadabyte