Comments on: Playing the News – A Means to Get Your Sources Engaged http://beatblogging.org/2008/04/11/playing-the-news-a-means-to-get-your-sources-engaged/ Pushing the practice of beat reporting Mon, 14 May 2012 12:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Mary Specht http://beatblogging.org/2008/04/11/playing-the-news-a-means-to-get-your-sources-engaged/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Mary Specht Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:03:25 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=132#comment-49 Hard to get my head around the details of this geek-tastic Google story, but I'm excited to see a promising news game format. It would be neat to extend the role-playing some more: after you get a majority verdict on what one actor will do (say, Amazon), you could ask readers to come back and guess what the other actor (say, Google) would do in response to that. Keep it going a little bit. Thanks, David, for pointing this out! Hard to get my head around the details of this geek-tastic Google story, but I’m excited to see a promising news game format.

It would be neat to extend the role-playing some more: after you get a majority verdict on what one actor will do (say, Amazon), you could ask readers to come back and guess what the other actor (say, Google) would do in response to that. Keep it going a little bit.

Thanks, David, for pointing this out!

]]> By: culturite http://beatblogging.org/2008/04/11/playing-the-news-a-means-to-get-your-sources-engaged/comment-page-1/#comment-48 culturite Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:12:49 +0000 http://beatblogging.org/?p=132#comment-48 'News scenario games' are a great idea, David. I'd like to see what we could make happen on NowPublic. ‘News scenario games’ are a great idea, David. I’d like to see what we could make happen on NowPublic.

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