Human Rights Alert
Wei]ingsheng is the father of the Chinese democracy movement. Except for a brief period in 1993 and 1994 he has been in jail since 1979. He has been denied needed medical care and recently has been beaten in his cell. He has done nothing to deserve this mistreatment, and is way worth rescuing, a global symbol of the indomitable human spirit. Take your stand with him and dare to speak up to the Chinese government as he did: Let Wei Jinsheng go! Write to:
Premier of the People's Republic
of China
Li Peng Zongli
9 Xihuangchenggenbeijie
Beijingshi 100032
People's Republic of China
The Cognitive Panorama - Times, Spaces, Voices, Values in Shared Perspective
by Heiner Benking <benking@faw.uni-ulm.de>
The Panorama is a shared multi-dimensional conceptual structure in Cyberspace. By mapping concepts in context with common frames in reference, we counteract Cyberculture's anticipated impact from I ) open-ended universality, 2) loss of meaning, and 3) loss of context in this "Second Flood" (Levy, 1996).
The design is based on thematic landscapes or scaffoldings which reflect deep structured orders which can be explored with different "lenses". The resulting spacially structured common searchable global index applies to any language or domain and can be seen as a switchboard or transformer which evolves over time. Multiple representations can coexist with resonances between them. We can combine the bird's eye and worm's eye view to give a bigger picture, allowing us to see and share, to create together, and to be more humble, the more we gaze and learn to talk about how little we know.