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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.

Last week, Rob Patton, the Program Manager for CITS, gave a talk on Facebook and interactivity. A video of his talk, which focused on findings from his Master’s research on Facebook, is now available online.

The UCTV version of the recent 2008 CITS Distinguished Lecture by Lawrence Lessig is now online. This recording will begin airing on Santa Barbara local cable Channel 21 and across the DISH Network Channel 9412 in the near future. Why wait -- watch it today! Professor Lessig's talk on Changing Congress outlines some fundamental procedural reforms necessary to bring about substantive changes in the nature of the U.S. political system.