clipped from www.theexplodingnewsroom.com

Pharmalot and the beatblogging experiment

I had breakfast earlier this week with Ed Silverman, maestro of our pharmaceutical industry site Pharmalot, and we spent a good chunk of our time talking about his participation in Jay Rosen’s beatblogging project, which is now starting to gain some momentum with the 13 participating newsrooms from across the country.

So I’m hoping for a little help here. What makes the most sense? I can see several ways to go, but I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts about these and others:

Wide open: Jump into Facebook, invite industry experts to join, then accept every friend invitation that comes in and feed the best stuff into the blog and a Pharmalot group on Facebook.

Open, but filtered: Use FriendFeed or Plaxo Pulse to gather stuff from designated contributors

Closed but open: This could involve something like a mini-Reddit

Closed: Employees of the pharmaceutical industry