links for 2010-03-14

[This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2010. "Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity." SXSW. Austin, Texas, March 13.

In the last six months, Apple and Google have jousted over acquisitions, patents, directors, advisers and iPhone applications. Mr. Jobs and Mr. Schmidt have taken shots at each other’s companies in the media and in private exchanges with employees.

On the limits of "Big Data" intelligence: "This phone knows just where I am, within a few feet. It knows the exact time, within a split second. And it can't figure out when and where No Left Turn rules apply?" Challenges with micropayments: "Sorry, sir, your credit card has been declined. Do you have another?" Huh? Next 20 minutes on the phone with Visa, only to learn: a sequence of 75-cent charges had been flagged as probable fraud.Come on, guys. I can't be the first person to try to read newspapers on the Kindle.

In defending Glenn Beck on ABC, Ailes described him as something like Fox's political id, rather than its whole personality. It is somehow fitting, then, that Sigmund Freud's great-grandson, Matthew Freud, might help put mainstream American journalism back in touch with its collective superego.

This year, Freud, a public relations executive in London and Murdoch's son-in-law, condemned Ailes in an interview with the New York Times, saying he was "ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard" of proper journalistic standards. Meanwhile, Gabriel Sherman, writing in New York magazine, suggests that Freud and other Murdoch relatives think Ailes has outlived his usefulness -- despite the fact that Fox, with its $700 million annual profit, finances News Corp.'s ability to keep its troubled newspapers and their skeleton staffs on life support.