As noted below, journalists are increasingly becoming comfortable with blogging as a resource for finding and honing story ideas.

Fantastic!

Blogs can be social networks, but the blogosphere is chaotic and in the end, unorganized. Hence, the switch to using a social network to inform your reporting seems to be the next evolution. The question then – how to do it?

That’s what we will find out. The next post (tomorrow morning) will be a conversation with Scott Clark and Dwight Silverman from the Houston Chronicle on what to expect with their beat blog.