Content owners crying wolfe?

ArsTechnica has a great article up covering the x new technology will destroy y current thing that everyone loves phenomenon over the past 100 years.

It may come as a surprise that these objections raised by content owners are both not new, and also not predictive of destruction of that industry. It is hard to argue against the idea that the cassette tape did more to help the music industry then it did to harm it.

An interesting read, check it out: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words.ars

Ken Robinson: Schools are killing creativity

Another wonderful TED talk, this one from Ken Robinson on how out education systems are killing creativity in our children.

Amazon pimps ancestry.com books

Spurred by a rogue search from a new/interesting search engine I stumbled across this book on Amazon.com about Schwerzlers.

The interesting thing is this seems to be a "book on demand" type of thing where Ancestry.com will print a book with all/a lot of the records they have relating to <insert name here>

For Schwerzler that book would probably be pretty short (84 pages) in comparison to a book on the name Johnson for example.

It is an interesting feature though, and I wonder why they did not come up with some clever way to electronically distribute the book as well as printing it?

While the idea may be novel, the reaction is not positive. If you look at the tags that people have tagged the book "Waste of good dollars" "Disappointed" "Waste of money"

I think I will hold off on plopping down the $30.

http://www.amazon.com/Schwerzler-Name-History-Ancestry-com/dp/B000WDAMI0