Where do you get your news? I am a former newspaper junkie. Back in the late 80s and 90s (the dark-age of the pre-internet days) I was working jobs where I’d get down to pennies in my bank account a few days before pay-day. Even though I was barely scraping by, i always had money for a daily newspaper. Some days I would even get two; the local paper and the USA Today. The Sunday paper was something that I really looked forward to.

Once the internet came into my home, I still continued to get a daily paper. I didn’t subscribe anymore, but would pick up a paper at the newspaper box closest to my house. Over time I stopped getting it daily and relied on the web to get my news. Eventually I came to rely more and more on sites such as CNN.com and ESPN.com to get my news even more than the actual cable television channels. I even recently stopped getting the Sunday paper.

Even though I am not getting a daily paper, or watching news on TV my news “consumption” has increased. The NewsGator iPhone app allows me to read a variety of news sources wherever and whenever I want. The application functions a custom newspaper for me. I have nearly 2,000 articles a day to read. Of course, I do not read them all, but who reads every article in a newspaper? The fact that I have loaded the app with sites that interest me actually allows me to read more daily news than a newspaper ever had.

Twitter gets me the breaking news faster than any other source. The recent election results and plane crash all were broken via my Twitter follows long before the major news sites. News delivery is changing, and it is for the better.

I do miss the Sunday paper, but the annoyance of a wet paper during even the slightest rain, missed deliveries, and the overabundance of ads and less and less good content made the decision to stop all together easy.