[dba-Tech] Google Alerts

Why not use an  rss xml news feed, you might have to provide a rss viewer
A viewer essentialy looks at and reformats the xml and refreshes on a 
timely basis
It beats looking at the xml file in IE and hitting refresh or F5, every 
five minutes.
The xml is a really simple format and you can fancy up the output with 
xsl or css
I have written a Access one but there are plenty of user friendly ones 
hooked to IE
Heck there are even rss feeds that search blogs
for starters
http://msdn.microsoft.com/aboutmsdn/rss/

Mitsules, Mark wrote:

>Drew,
>
>http://www.google.com/alerts/faq.html?hl=en
>
>Mark
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Drew Wutka [mailto:dbatech at wolfwares.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:12 PM
>To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Google Alerts
>
>
>What is google alerts?
>
>Drew
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Mitsules,
>Mark
>Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 10:38 AM
>To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Google Alerts
>
>
>Group,
>
>Wasn't quite sure where to post this, so here goes.  I am the webmaster for
>my departmental website.  I made it clear from the onset when I took the job
>that I would NOT be responsible for creating the ongoing content, merely its
>presentation.  Sad to say, but it appears that the content providers aren't
>responsible either;)  In an attempt to provide ongoing unique content, I
>have looked into Google alerts.  I'm setting up one now for industry related
>news.  My question is this:
>
>I will be receiving these alerts through Outlook with the goal of posting
>them to our website in a timely manner using an automatic or semi-automatic
>process.
>
>Any great ideas on how to proceed?
>
>
>Mark
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