The Streisand Effect

The Video Professor wants to make sure you know how scammy he is.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

You've seen his ads on TV -- "The Video Professor".  He'll teach you eBay or PowerPoint or some such program, with a free trial.  As it turns out the trial is pretty sneaky. When you sign up, you pay about $5 for shipping and that's it.  However, buried deep in the ...

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Barclays seems to have something to hide. Oops.

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

I'll open with the line TechCrunch opened with, because it summarizes this situation perfectly: The lawyers never seem to get the fact that some things just aren’t that interesting until they try to force people not to talk about them. And that’s certainly the case with London headquartered Barclays bank, which ...

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