{"id":292,"date":"2005-03-01T05:27:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T05:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/292"},"modified":"2005-03-01T05:27:53","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T05:27:53","slug":"google-auto-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/292","title":{"rendered":"Google Auto-link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/toolbar\/bin\/static.py?page=features.html\">Auto-Link<\/a> feature is generating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000772.html\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2005\/02\/google_gets_awa.html\">sorts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/003377.php\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/trademark.blog.us\/blog\/2005\/02\/19.html#a1606\">commentary<\/a>, most of it the perennial &#8220;have they crossed the line into scary all-your-base-are-belong-to-us mode yet&#8221; type.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not seen the interface yet (it&#8217;s Windows-only, and I&#8217;m, well, not). But assuming (a) it&#8217;s easy to turn on or off and (b) users can tell what&#8217;s an auto-link and what&#8217;s original to the webpage I see the application itself as just one more shift in power from the author to the audience, just like TiVo, ad blocking, style-sheet overrides, those DVD-reediting kits for people who don&#8217;t like the dirty bits, the remote control and the highlighter pen. I&#8217;m in favor of all of them.<\/p>\n<p>There is one thing that does concern me though, and it&#8217;s not the application itself, but the bundling of the information source with the Google Desktop app itself. There&#8217;s not much they could do about that (and I trust Google a lot more than I trusted Microsoft when they tried this same trick), but I would feel much better if this were a generic open API in my Firefox, where I could pick and choose who handles each of my rewrite rules. Even a benevolent hegemony is dangerous, both in case it stops being benevolent and because it lacks genetic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>So, who&#8217;s up for writing an auto-link Firefox plug-in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/toolbar\/bin\/static.py?page=features.html\">Auto-Link<\/a> feature is generating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-to-tinker.com\/archives\/000772.html\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2005\/02\/google_gets_awa.html\">sorts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/003377.php\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/trademark.blog.us\/blog\/2005\/02\/19.html#a1606\">commentary<\/a>, most of it the perennial &#8220;have they crossed the line into scary all-your-base-are-belong-to-us mode yet&#8221; type.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not seen the interface yet (it&#8217;s Windows-only, and I&#8217;m, well, not). But assuming (a) it&#8217;s easy to turn on or off and (b) users can tell what&#8217;s an auto-link and what&#8217;s original to the webpage I see the application itself as just one more shift in power from the author to the audience, just like TiVo, ad blocking, style-sheet overrides, those DVD-reediting kits for people who don&#8217;t like the dirty bits, the remote control and the highlighter pen. I&#8217;m in favor of all of them.<\/p>\n<p>There is one thing that does concern me though, and it&#8217;s not the application itself, but the bundling of the information source with the Google Desktop app itself. There&#8217;s not much they could do about that (and I trust Google a lot more than I trusted Microsoft when they tried this same trick), but I would feel much better if this were a generic open API in my Firefox, where I could pick and choose who handles each of my rewrite rules. Even a benevolent hegemony is dangerous, both in case it stops being benevolent and because it lacks genetic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>So, who&#8217;s up for writing an auto-link Firefox plug-in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}