Google News has a really neat new feature. After you search for something, the results page has a little envelope icon on the left side and is labeled "News Alerts". Click on this and enter your e-mail address. Any time Google finds a new story about what you searched on, it will send you an e-mail. You can specify whether it should send you a notice once a day or every time it finds a story.

I am interested in whether or not SBC is going to go on strike in Illinois today because we have some things at the county they are supposed to do this week. If they strike today that will impact what we will do. The alert will search on the terms "sbc Illinois strike". Pretty cool, huh?