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The chattering classes, or the Twittering classes anyhow, are pretty much exhausted by now, after 36 hours or so of tut-tutting over the Associated Press’ announcement that it will “seek legal and legislative remedies against those who don’t” license content from the AP and its member newspapers.  Not naming any names, you understand.  Nor asking the tech staff to update the robots.txt file.

Rather than run through the bullet points on all sides of the question at hand (and yes, there are well more than two), I’m more in the mood to focus my attention on solving tomorrow’s problems instead of yesterday’s.  Tomorrow’s are about mobility and convenience, and no one has a corner on them, yet.  Let’s hope not too many innovators wind up giving depositions when they could be developing ideas.

So look elsewhere for your hand-wringing today.  Unless you want to read any of these imaginatively headlined articles:

Who’s Afraid of Google? — Wired, December 2005.

Who’s Afraid of Google? — Business Week, April 9, 2007.

Who’s Afraid of Google? — San Francisco Chronicle, May 11, 2007

Who’s Afraid of Google? — The Economist, Sept. 1, 2007 [behind a subscription wall]

There are 5,160 references to this question findable through, er, Google, but many of them are to the pieces above.  The magazine pieces are all cover stories; I guess their circulation managers are not among the fearful.