From Eliot Van Buskirk:

One beatbloggingish thing I’ve done recently though is ask the sf_indie email list what is so wrong with Pitchfork’s reviews.  It didn’t come from my beatblogging network, but it utilized some of the same principles.

I ended up with a great quote

Related from Daniel Victor:

From my network I’ve made contact with people who have contacted me outside of the network to give me information.

ie: The network Daniel set up introduced him to new sources – the subsequent sourcing happened in a traditional one-to-one manner, but Daniel never would have met the new sources if it hadn’t been for his network.