Distinguishing public and private

Most likely a rebuttal to Mark Zuckerberg's call for a redefinition of privacy as a social norm, danah boyd (lack of cap intentional) in her keynote address at the SXSWi festival argues that 'privacy is not dead'. Citing both the recent Google Buzz debacle and Facebook's changes to privacy settings in December she argued that in the best case there is a basic misunderstanding of what users want or, in the worst case, a new corporate strategy of trying to get as many users locked in right away, regardless of the consequences. More from CNet here.