Posted by: admin in News on January 17th, 2008

The News Review:

- Yahoo! No More Password Profusion!
- penID Gaining Critical Mass Yahoo Announces Support
- All Tomorrow’s Art Parties
- Muslims suppressing atheism in Turkey

Yahoo! No More Password Profusion!
Motley Fool – Jan 17, 2008
By the end of January you can sign up for the public beta program and start using your Yahoo! ID across more than 9000 sites. Adding 248 million Yahoo! users to the 120 million accounts today will more than triple the current penID user base. There are plenty of recognizable names on the guest list already including Microsoft (Nasdaq:.

penID Gaining Critical Mass Yahoo Announces Support
Search Engine Land – Jan 17, 2008
” That is the master login that a person uses: AL screenname Wordpress login or now Yahoo login. As Yahoo explains:When you are on a web site that supports penID login simply look for a Yahoo! login button. r if you see a text box with an penID icon simply type in “yahoo. You will be sent to Yahoo! to verify your Yahoo! ID and password and then you will be able to continue on.

All Tomorrow’s Art Parties
SF Weekly – Jan 16, 2008
Subject(s):Vogel on Gen Art controversyGen Art the site charged exploits artists as a way to draw patrons who pay for yearly membership but doesn’t give back to the artistic community; provides inadequate security (at the 2006 Emerge San Francisco show work valued at $7000 was stolen from two artists and recovered later from the show’s own security guard); and knows nothing about installing or lighting art often leaving artists to their own devices (one who participated in Emerge 2006 told me that he was surprised to have to bring his own hammer and nails). Local artists who responded to the Web site (.

Muslims suppressing atheism in Turkey
pEdNews – Jan 16, 2008
BAV created their own version of Islamic creationism and they became very popular in Turkey and in other Islamic countries. During 2007 Turkish Telecom has been busy blocking access to many other web sites(*) including YouTube but they had to back off from YouTube ban due to public outrage. In August 2007 popular blogging platform wordpress. com was completely blocked by Turkish Telecom on the ground that a number of "defamation" blogs allegedly made "slanderous" remarks against Harun Yahya. This was also a court order. Harun Yahya is the spiritual head of a vast Islamic apologist outfit in Turkey which has reached Islamic publishers in London Canada and the US. Though Harun Yahya is described by many as a "charlatan" he has made inroads with Muslims all the way from Indonesia to America.

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