I'm the first to tell you about Google Alerts?

I took a quick browse through Bejota's blog and didn't see that he had broken the news on Google Alerts. Bejota, let me know if you did but I'm going on the assumption that I'm the first...

Google Alerts is a Beta program from Google that allows you to get an email alert when a phrase you select is posted on the web or on Google News. I'm trying it out with my name as the google alert - that way if Alicia blogs about me using my first and last name, I'll be in the know. If you google my name you'll find not very much exciting things so I'm not expecting frequent updates, but I'll enjoy them when they come. I likey.