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Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux
Lomegor writes "'Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt?' Google introduced today a new project, Google CL, that lets you do that and much more. It's a new command line tool for Linux that acts as an interface with Google services; you can upload videos to YouTube or maybe post a new blog post in Blogger in just one line."
I think this is an interesting juxtaposition. I lessly the fonder of Google services because too often it seems things are centralised with the various Google Services. What I liked about Linux was it's decentralisation, that control was distributed to whomever had the capacity and the will to partake.
I don't suggest it's worthless that I can give content to Google from the command line, but that it seems to ideologically oppose one of the strengths of Linux. And artistic content is one area that is suffering from centralisation. Artistic content builds upon what came before it (I mention that because we're not all Lessig-educated), and copyright is increasingly centralising content to a small number of firms. Giving your content to Google isn't like giving your content to Disney, but it's submitting it to the control of a lessly interested party.
sudo $(googlecl imfeelinglucky malicious commands)
If you're not familiar with google's api it's a pretty large time investment. Partially because of the size, but also because they're often not the most up to date. A lot of the doc api for example doesn't work with docs created under the system that's been up for a few months now. But that fact isn't listed anywhere in their documentation, or even very easy to find by searching because the error message is so generic and uninformative.
Everything will be taken away from you.
... it'd be equally cool if they had a really open API and you could just use a script with curl to upload.
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