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My post was an elaborate way of saying a good understanding can be reached through a few experts or many enthusiasts, but the enthusiast camp tends to contain something more solid due to its sheer population. Reaching that understanding just becomes more difficult in relation to the size.
Again, I'm being elaborate. An example is the iPhone. Experts were examining Apple amongst its competitors, market conditions, etc., and didn't see anything too special. Enthusiasts had been observing closely for a while, though, and many had a strong feeling a phone was going to be announced. Some of them used that "insider" info (not really insider trading, I know) and decided to buy stock just before Mac World, or whatever that event is called.
My impression of the article is that the sites being discussed are different attempts to productively harness that giant, sporadically organized, enthusiast knowledge (i.e. a method of following good track records).
I somehow got a cold over the weekend and I've been in a haze off and on since Sunday night. I don't know how I got a cold in August, but I did, and the haze is causing me to make about as much sense..
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