The system will monitor data from 50,000 Web sites with many types of information, including World Health Organization alerts, online discussions by experts, wildlife trade reports and local news.
The three blogs where comments were submitted alerting the online community to the new e-mails are all known for their critiques of the work of climate scientists.
Indeed, within hours of alerting customers online that the Ugg bags could be ordered, the store took in more than $800,000 in advance sales.
This summer, Theater L.A. hopes to track the preferences of participating ticket buyers, alerting them online to other productions of interest and offering "choice seats, great locations and appropriate-price tickets," Mr. Wochner said.
The movies and TV shows are just one feature in a landscape of viral marketing campaigns, merchandising tie-ins, spoiler alerts, online chat forums, fan blogs, websites that treat fictional worlds as real places, and so on.
The Web site's declaration of a Bush triumph was echoed in an e-mail message that The Times on the Web sent to users who have registered for such alerts online; the e-mails, like newspapers already deposited on doorsteps, could not be recalled.
Recent enhancements include listings for river cruise lines, cruise price alerts, online booking and itinerary maps.
Since MHRA started reporting drug alerts online in 2001, there has been a gradual increase in the rate of drug alerts related to defective medicinal products.
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They are also alerted immediately online if they fail to provide any necessary information.
