Well, it appears that those geniuses at Microsoft, rather than backing down when faced with the furor over Smart Tags, are digging in. “To suggest that the author knows best how to write effectively to each individual reader is silly,” says John Wilcox. I find it frightening that MS, now with a virtual monopoly on how web pages are displayed, makes their first use of that monopoly to institute a scheme where they can add links to any web page, going wherever they want. As Dave Winer says, very 1984.
Anyone who writes on the web should be gearing up to do whatever it takes to stop this.
Who the hell wrote that piece? Illiterates are not the best people to make strained arguments about the function of writers.
I heartily agree.