delete

Ego-Alerts: Updated (33 minutes)...

Nice work, Google–33 minutes isn’t bad. Share the...
delete

Ego-Alerts: Ain’t the Internets Gr...

Of course, alerts are nothing new, but to tie onto an old post, I have taken ego surfing to a new level.  Latest alert, “Jeremy Floyd.”  If you blog, post my name and I will let you know if Google is indexing your page. Share the...
delete

Bring Me the News–When it Happens:...

The days of searching through reams of newspaper print for stories that are applicable to our lives are in their twilight.  RSS feeds (aka blogs) and Google Alerts change the way that valuable information is delivered.  In this segment, I would like to specifically deal with Google Alerts and how they can change our information flow.  For several years, I have used Google Alerts to comb the Internet for specific topics, and basically I thought of the alerts as a little geek secret.  However, when I heard a popular talk show host discussing Google Alerts the...