August 14, 2002

Are you beginning to check websites as a part of your daily beat? If so, you no doubt find it frustrating that some governmental agencies and consumer sites put valuable new reports online with little or no fanfare. To avoid missing those new posts, check out a free service called OnScan, which alerts you whenever a website changes.


The user has total control over when and how you are alerted. Go to a website, click on the alert, and you will be notified when that site is updated.


OnScan can alert you in several ways: by an OnScan pop-up message, e-mail, pager, or cell phone. It also has Spam protection: You don’t have to give out your e-mail identification and expose yourself to Spam or lengthy sales pitches to receive site updates.
Click here for more information and a “free” download.

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Wendland is a technology journalist and a Fellow at Poynter. His newspaper columns appear in the Detroit Free Press, his TV reports are seen on…
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