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I'm almost done listening to the ITConversations podcast on AutoLinking. I had no idea it was such a controversial topic: but, of course, anything that modifies content (AutoLinking, once a button is pressed, creates links out of addresses, ISBN's, and other things in a webpage) gets monied interests all fiesty in the head. The main issue is about the control of web published content.

All this stuff was debated back in the mid to late 90's when frames were (like About.com) debated, and then there was app from the late 90's (ThirdVoice?) that let people add annotations to any web page (how cool was that?). But, it's still very interesting, if only because Doctorow runs circles around the pro-"content producer" arguments, even deploying the deadly, "yeah, competition sucks doesn't it...you fucking cry-babies."