Live, local, and late breaking. That’s the news from KHNL-TV. Of course, it’s live only when they’re on the air, which is only a few times a day.
It’s local only when it’s not national or international, which is much of the time. Late breaking? How about late breaking alerts? As television stations gravitate toward the Internet to deliver more of their news, you’ll be able to get news when you want. And when you don’t want. Or, just to save for later.
Alerts. Many news gathering organizations these days have automated email alerts for news, weather, stocks, sports, and more. Internet users are literally alerted to the news by automated email and text messaging alerts to computers and cell phones.
Surf conditions are already available in email alerts. How long before we receive alerts about traffic conditions on routes we travel before we head out the door to the car?
I can imagine a world of alerts. Costco could send me an email alert which lets me know that gasoline prices are going up a few cents. I wouldn’t mind an email alert from Costco which tells me the line at their gasoline station pumps has gone down to less than 50 cars.
Subscribing to email and text message alerts will be a big business as more of our internet-like communication moves toward our cell phones. Women will get cell phone alerts about sales at Macy’s. Men will get alerts about sales at Home Depot, the man’s Macy’s.
How will we be alerted whenever our threshold of alerts is reached?
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