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The Chinese government wanted better breathing conditions during the 2008 Summer Olympics and temporarily closed factories and highways. New NASA satellite images show that the air was in fact cleaner as a result.

Polyvore is a website that lets users mix and match online images to make outfits for themselves. The creator of this site also created Yahoo! Pipes. Some independent clothing designers are angry about the remix aspect of the site and consider it copyright infringement. The site itself is making a case that it isn't engaging in copyright infringement.

James Grimmelmann of New York Law School has published an article on law and policy related to privacy and social network sites using Facebook as its principal example. He argues that people's framing of privacy problems, and most of the solutions that people have in mind, are bad fits for social networking services.

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Last week, the Washington Post hosted an online event with Judy Estrin, former CTO of Cisco and CITS's upcoming speaker at the 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series.

Some highlights:

BizBooks: You list research, development, and application as the pro-innovation ecosystem's sort of Holy Trinity. Why do we always hear about R&D, but rarely about application?

With the U.S. presidential election less than two weeks away, and the ever present concern about election fraud, many have suggested moving toward an electronic voting system. In fact, 32% of Americans will vote on electronic voting systems on November 4th, according to the Washington Times.

Twitter is a "free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length" (Wikipedia ).

Unlike a blog, Twitter users frequently update through short posts. Many Twitter users "tweet" through their mobile devices.