the book groundswell starts out with a story about Barbara Streisand complaining about a photo project that covered the entire California coast. she wanted pictures of her house taken down. of course, this spread throughout the internet, and there was a lot of publicity (mostly negative) about her. was the complaint worth it?

today, a model demanded that google take down remarks about her that were written on someone’s blog (hosted on google – nothing to do with search) – article here. now, when you search her name, the first 10 to 15 links on google are all articles about her lawsuit. the main article, “Skanks in New York”, was #2 on LA’s Buzz List for January 7th. No image links. She is a model, right?

this may be good publicity for her. i never heard of her, and i’ve just blogged about her. but is all publicity good? will this be good for her career? think about, one person wrote something nasty about her (maybe true, maybe not), probably 30-50 people read it. She takes offense, sues, and now millions of people read it.

it just goes to show, you can’t control what’s said on the internet. if you try to correct something, depending on how you do it, you’ll most likely end up exacerbating the problem. be careful with what you say! also be careful with how you react! don’t forget Liskula Cohen!