PUBLIC MARKS from "Laurent Denis"

The march of monetization inevitably continues, to the distress of RSS purists who believe the medium should remain commercial-free. RSS is merely a publishing format, no different in principle from any other platform that distributes information content. Kanoodle’s breakthrough is in making RSS feeds as easily monetized as Web sites, which Google proved a win-win platform for ad-syndicator and ad-provider.

throwing away the current standards and replacing them with new standards (...) why anyone would think that the people who failed to fully and correctly implement HTML, CSS, JS and the DOM, would magically turn into perfect programmers able to fully and correctly implement the new technology.

AutoLink is new feature in the new third version of Google's popular Google Toolbar that's raised controversy since it was released last week. Why are publishers upset? Can they block the feature that adds links to their web pages? Who rules over content, users or publishers? Why do I think Google should give publishers an opt-out for the feature.