Beat Blogging: Wired - The Listening Post joins in | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com

blogging offers a fundamentally different relationship with readers than traditional newsgathering, and with this project we hope to tap even deeper into that phenomenon. “The beatblogging method has already helped us break news stories that we could not have gotten any other way by letting readers with knowledge find us and inform us. The connections allow us to take even the slenderest threads of information — say an invitation under embargo to meet with technology executives (declined) — to build a complete and accurate news story with the help of our readers.