Great bloggers tend to be info-junkies, and the Argo-bloggers will have to be. We’ll be asking them to stay on top of RSS feeds, email alerts, Twitter streams, comment threads, Facebook groups, and mailing lists, along with all the other information inputs any reporter has to process. Disciplined info-management is one of the hardest skills to teach on the fly, and one of the most necessary for success in this arena. So I’d dig deeply into this question.
Related questions: Do you use an RSS reader? How many feeds are in it? How do you manage them? What do you read first in the morning? How do you stay on top of Twitter as the day rolls on? How do you store information for later retrieval?
What to watch for: What I’d be looking for out of this line of questioning is not a specific toolkit or workflow as much as a sense that they seek out a solid variety of info every day, and they have effective systems to process it. I’d note the extent to which they read blogs and engage in social media; they should feel totally at home in this world.
