Great article, but don't you think that a critical elite will eventually be taken over by a critical proletariat? In that, I mean look at BitMob itself: everyone has an opinion, and by gaming web sites (and the meteoric rise of blogs) giving the common user a voice, it feels as if an elite class of critics will always grow smaller and smaller until we're just reading composite blog sites of user opinion.
I also agree with @Ben in that academia may be that missing fourth group, but I think in the infancy it is in it will end up being pretty wildly different from the way academics treat, say, film. Drew Davidson's Well Played 1.0 is a neat step if you've never read it."
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Great article, but don't you think that a critical elite will eventually be taken over by a critical proletariat? In that, I mean look at BitMob itself: everyone has an opinion, and by gaming web sites (and the meteoric rise of blogs) giving the common user a voice, it feels as if an elite class of critics will always grow smaller and smaller until we're just reading composite blog sites of user opinion.
I also agree with @Ben in that academia may be that missing fourth group, but I think in the infancy it is in it will end up being pretty wildly different from the way academics treat, say, film. Drew Davidson's Well Played 1.0 is a neat step if you've never read it."