• Ethan Zuckerman — Searching for common ground with Andrew Keen: Zuckerman wants to ask Andrew Keen, the Cult of the Amateur provocateur, a pointed question:
  

  I planned to ask Keen when he’d become worth listening to. He argues that we should listen to experts, not to amateurs… but this is his first book. Did he become an expert in a single moment of enlightenment? Or when the check from the publisher cleared? If it wasn’t a quantum process, was there a moment as a very good amateur where he was suddently worth listening to? And if so, doesn’t that mean that there could be, theoretically, out there on the citizen-generated internet, someone else worth his time to listen to?

• JOHO: is the Web different?: David Weinberger divides us all into Web utopians, dystopians and realists. An argument of great clarity.

• Play This Thing! — Game criticism, why we need it and why reviews arent it: Greg Costikyan bemoans the absence of serious critical writing on the art of game-making.

  Rings a bell for me; way back when I was working as a theater and movie critic and trying to figure out what to do next with my life, I toyed with the idea of trying to write criticism about videogames and computer games. After producing one extended opus on the Mario oeuvre I realized I was already (in my early 30s) way too old for the work.

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