Google Alerts is a great tool to stay in the loop on any current event faster than the morning paper or TV news. It's a great tool professionally and personally. Great for Social Studies teachers.
Google's Help explains.
I have been collecting Alerts on Wikileaks, Ai Weiwei (Chinese government detained Artist), and the Government Shutdown. I have put my Alert settings to send me any kind of news the moment it comes out. You can, also, set it to send you a daily or weekly digest and you can just set your Alerts for News, Blogs, Realtime, Video or Discussions only.
Google Alerts also can be tracked in your Google Reader, making your news or information flow more directed and in one place. Google Reader will update for you automatically. I can now keep my Reader open and toggle back to it to view any new updates. For more information on how Google Reader makes your news/info/rss/blogs much easier to collect and saves headaches, go to my Google Reader post.
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