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  The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on what has been called user-centric identity. Basically asking the question how can people manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to

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Promoted to the front page by Sohail Mamdani. Originally published July 13, 2008.

Somewhere in Minneapolis or Jackson or Baltimore, somewhere in America today, there is a young couple that is feeling vulnerable. Maybe one has been laid off due to outsourcing, and maybe, the other is working for something close to a minimum wage. They probably have no medical benefits. Today real income is lower for the typical family than in 2000, while the incomes of the wealthiest families have grown significantly. Things are tough for working people, but in America, we often turn to our faith in tough times.

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Promoted to the front page by Sohail Mamdani. Original published 2008-08-14

http://www.youtube.com/user/ummahfilms

You may find his videos interesting and useful. I have been doing a lot lately with ustream and youtube, using a webcam to video-blog.

Greetings! 

As you can see, we've got a bit of a new look. Think of this as an 'interim makeover', if you will. The site's ongoing development, which has been happening in fits and starts, has been taking up quite a bit of time, and the old theme and features were getting very, very stale.

The new look and features are stopgap measures, meant to get rid of a theme that was starting to annoy even me every time I visited the site. It's my hope that this new look and feel will make visiting the site less of an eyesore while we continue to hammer away at the overhaul that's been needed for, oh, a few years now.

continue reading "Were back. Thanks for bearing with us."

The UK Guardian has a story today on a senior UN figure advising people to eat less meat as an easy way for individuals to make a difference to climate change.
What's not mentioned is that hundreds of millions of people around the world are currently at risk of hunger due to record high grain prices. Of course, much of the current high price of grain is due to subsidies for US farmers to turn corn into ethanol; but that's a new development. But the harsh fact of the world food supply for the last few decades is that most of the grain being produced has been used to feed livestock, not people. A small reduction in meat consumption would result in far lower prices of staple foods such as rice and wheat.
Something to think about for those of us who have highly carnivorous tendencies at this time of year.

Via Helen Titchen Beeth and Chris Chapman:

Topic: Citizen’s initiative to start building an independent global climate architecture Who else is thinking along these lines?

Basis of the appeal:

* “The latest news from the climate scientists leaves no doubt that climate change presents humanity with an unprecedented challenge – we face an emergency which could even possibly be terminal for human civilisation.