I really love The Economist. It’s a must-read for me every week. Many weeks it’s the only news I read. But lately I’ve been wanting to read it in the train on my iPhone, especially as the online version is up one night before I got my print edition. But the online version of The Economist is just too fat. Tons of Javascript and ads which make it a slow experience. The Tabulate bookmarklet helped a little to ease the pain. But not much.
So finally I got fed up and started writing a small screen scraper. Something I’m pretty familiar with already… The result is the iphonomist.
I’m not guaranteeing availability or freshness. I’ll probably automate the generation but for now I need to start it manually. And should I get any letter from any lawyer I’ll not put up a fight. Oh and should a proper official mobile version become available I’ll just redirect my site there. So with all these caveats in mind: have fun.