Again: I often point to ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch and Mashable as examples of beat blogging - and the latest experiment from RWW is a perfect example why.

Using Impact Games they created four characters who could play out recent tech news. You could be a developer, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc, and predict what they would do next and how they would react to future circumstances.

Imagine a situation where these scenario games are as quick to create as blog posts. Why not build a special one for your sources? Get them to comment on current events and feel like they are playing a game at the same time.

So much of beat blogging is finding a way to engage your sources - give them a reason to stay involved, perhaps creating game-like sourcing is a means to do that.