Doctors are not pleased, but cash is a good means and the Internet, there has long been commonplace. patients can now assess their physicians.

The doctors keep the enthusiasm in check. It was “was inevitable that something is” obviously, “said Berlin Medical Association President Günther Jonitz. While transparency is extremely important in health care. But they would soon find out that a review of doctors by patients about the real quality of care is not much informative.

health insurance, however praise her project as a key “building block for more quality” in medical care. As of now that is in Germany to find a good doctor no longer rely on tips from friends. Together with the Bertelsmann Foundation and the associations of the most patient and consumer organizations launched the fund AOK and Barmer GEK on Tuesday in an Internet portal for office-based physician evaluation.

These can be used not only to pass the 30 million insured both cash their experiences with doctors. customers can use the results of all – including those for which insurers are involved (yet) on the so-called doctor-Navigator

.93 percent of Germans visited at least once a year a doctor and 40 percent would even intervene in more than four surgeries, said the vice chairman of the Barmen GEK, Rolf-Ulrich Schlenker. “There is no greater experience, and we want to raise it.” The Navigator is a “wonderful tool” for patient orientation: non-commercial, scientific monitoring, tamper-proof and protected data .Even the doctors who met the debate initiated by the AOK project with protest could benefit, said Jürgen Graalmann from AOK-Bundesverband. They received so eventually “systematic feedback and support for internal quality management.

The portal is directed “to the patient, but not against the doctors” assured Graalmann. So you waive school grades and rank lists of supposedly the best medicine. The questionnaires were designed with the participation of scientists and doctors, anyone can search for specific criteria in it that were important to him. Free fields for “insulting criticism” there is not, moreover – in other than in comparable portals – ensures that no patient a doctor evaluated several times. And everyone’s allowed to comment on his personal data. He may even be completely blocked -. Which then allows also very critical conclusions.

Data is a raw material. This insight is a household word, at least since the advertising executive Michael Palmer wrote in 2006: “Data is the new oil.” Palmer postulated in the image of this metaphor that raw data are worthless. Only when they worked would incur from them useful products made from oil like plastic, fertilizer or fuel. Is

Online Texas newspaper Tribune: Many visitors come for the data applications

In the same year wrote the American journalist and programmer Adrian Holovaty a seminal text entitled “A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change” should. He believes that newspapers and other media focus not only on stories. You should consider much more information from the point of how their content is to store them in a structured form, ie in databases. Then, it could Holovaty, from stories in the long term added value be skimmed off. For such structured information can be retrieved with other databases linked and automated. And they in turn can be enriched journalistic offerings – recovered data as a fertilizer of the medial field.

Holovatys proposals are important for three reasons: First, he knows about the technological aspects of decision. The now 30-year-old is one of the programmers of the platform Django -.. A development environment for the popular Python programming language that allows data applications provide a flexible way to quick to Django was developed in the IT department of a newspaper

Second Holovaty has implemented the theory itself and significantly built up the service Every Block. It is broken down the flagship project of so-called hyper-local services, information on the city blocks and individual streets. Much of the information coming from open-data services.

Third was the practice of law as had Holovaty: data-driven journalism or journalism professionals has enjoyed a meteoric rise since 2009. The British daily Guardian started out a Data blog. And was surprised, met with the interest to provide data rates around current events daily. Meanwhile, a separate unit “data” has been established. 2009 was also the year in the U.S., the newly sworn-in President Barack Obama declared his open-government directive. And so was the Open Data Movement enormous momentum that it continues to contribute to the whole world.

the Warlogs from Afghanistan, the Wikileaks, along with some media partners in the summer of last year released, then came the breakthrough data for journalism. As never before, a record was the focus of media interest. And it was made available to readers in the online media in many forms. Beyond text, sound and image data grew so with the journalism a new interactive narrative format.

That could molt this interactive format for unique selling point for online journalism, the example Texas Tribune . The two-year-old foundation-funded journalism project recorded the most visitors, after all, a total of more than 250,000 a month in its data portfolio. There are more than 50 interactive applications that allow access to educational information or give information about the work of politicians. Fed the offers are also mainly from open data.

And not only unique selling point, data could also become a business model for online journalism. The data journalist Nicolas Kayser-Bril, Mirko Lorenz and George McGhee are at least satisfied. They develop in their text “Media companies must become thrusted data hubs” the paradigm of data clusters, which can be online media. With its reputation as an independent rapporteurs could be newspapers and news portals to service providers that provide users with information matching, depending on interest and questions.

Where the development is in fact, is still uncertain. The fact that the pace of digitization and automation, however, change the journalism show, the first experiments with the “robot journalism.” Similarly, it is clear that the data base is growing as more and more governments and administrations are preparing to reveal their knowledge. And because of its underlying concept should not shy away from journalism to deal with this information.

He could advance an idea, from Tim Berners-Lee has long been dreaming. The founder of the World Wide Web for years already formulated his vision of records that may relate to one another – a semantic network. Because this is formed from “linked data”, linked information and will bring a qualitative leap for the information infrastructure of the network, hopes Berners-Lee. For it is clear that records will be the fuel for journalism, and recommends that: “Journalists should be datenaffin.”

The social network Facebook has according to a report of Guardian off dozens of profiles to match the political groups. Among them was the profile of UK Uncut and other protest movements, the criticism of the economic and social policies of the British government were saying. Affected are also sites that were established during the university occupations in December by students.

The parties concerned can not be called instead an error message. Administrators of the profiles say that this has set many connections between activists suspended. There are now on the Facebook group “Stop The Facebook Purge” (“Stop the Facebook cleansing “).

A Facebook spokesman said the affected profiles were disabled because they were not registered correctly. This was not politically motivated or had to do even with the heightened security measures surrounding the royal wedding, as speculated by those affected. Facebook profiles that are registered as pages of individuals, but actually represented groups, are contrary to the policies of the network.

The affected users would be notified by e-mail of the violation, the spokesman said. You would be notified as they could reactivate their accounts properly.

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The first official Internet Museum scores with less formal ingenuity in the presentation when entertaining with net art.

Who wants to visit the Adobe Museum of Digital Media, requires only a browser. The AMDM is the first official Internet Museum – without guards and open all day. Behind this is the Californian company Adobe Systems, best known for software such as Photoshop or PDF format.

The site will however be more than a platform for art on the net. The makers take the word ‘museum’ seriously.

To show the AMDM as a virtual building. Three huge, organic-looking towers, the architect Filippo Innocenti has designed. Like corn stalks they wind around each other. A trailer demonstrates how the futuristic museum fits into known Cityscapes – New York, Venice, Paris. In the real world, the building would provide 57 680 square meters of exhibition space, more than the Tate Modern in London.

Unfortunately, the Internet miss one thing: It still has no material outside. And so is the supposed buildings rather meaningless metaphor. While the visitor enters a virtual atrium. Click to rotate in a kind of billboard posters, the exhibition, is to click on it. But the design looks more like the Cover Flow function, such as Apple uses to display album art in iTunes.

What makes this project, other things. It allows to experience art through play. As with children attending a technical museum, is one concentration: pressing buttons and see what happens. The Adobe Museum cultivates the joy of clicking.

The first major exhibition, Valley comes from the U.S. video artist Tony Oursler. It begins with a hand-painted menu that leads to various exhibits. Here, visitors can distort the mouse three-dimensional faces, dance or pie charts can explode cart can. And again and again pops up a round clown face, which are cryptic comments by clicking on its own. A fun ghost train on the web.

The second opening was originally scheduled for April. On a small Japanese island, the artist Mariko Mori has created two sculptures that respond to sun and tides. Tida Dome this installation extends to the Internet. In a short text Mori is known, however, because of the tragic disasters in Japan, they have decided to postpone their work.

Each time you look at a computer screen or use your phone, you enter into a relationship with non-human technology. They do it regularly, it is part of your everyday life. So you’re a cyborg. This is actually nothing special, yet many are surprised when they did not want to admit it.

Amber Case technology understood by Amber Case has always been a lot – by fewer people. Therefore, she studied sociology and anthropology. Today explores the 24-year-old cyborg anthropologist, the relationship between people and technology. To improve this, she developed computer programs for the company Vertigo in Portland.

Knowledge TIME: Perhaps because many in the term cyborg immediately thought of “Robocop” or the “Terminator” …

Case: Possibly. The notion for the first time in 1960 was used in an article on space travel. A cyborg, it is said there is an organism, the exogenous components are added so that it can adapt to a new environment. The definition still applies, with time, however, been somewhat refined.

Knowledge TIME: So are cyborgs people who can not live without technology – capable of being controlled by it.

Case: This is nonsense! The technology is at the service of mankind. We are creating robots, cell phones and other technical equipment for our own needs. They make us more functional, productive, the better. The technology makes us super humans.

Knowledge TIME: Sounds like a science fiction cliché.

Case: Yes. Just as we move towards us. For thousands of years, tools have made us physically stronger. Now we see a development of the mental self. The changes we are living through calling us out more than the processes that brought the industrial revolution.

Knowledge TIME: This is a steep thesis – also studied for a cyborg anthropologist.

Case: I watched it every day on Facebook, on Twitter and in blogs. It is clear that cars make us faster, the Internet allows us to think comprehensively, and through social networks, we are. In a study I have dealt thus, has the effects of mobile telephony for social and spatial relations. The result: The public space is privatized through the increased use of mobile phones are becoming stronger. Time and space are shrinking, because people always and everywhere lead private conversations – whether on the road, on the bus or in a restaurant.

Knowledge TIME: There are many people that it bothers solid, having to listen to intimate moments with other …

Case: The relationship of humans to technology is very individual. Nevertheless bind many of your electronics. Can be roughly classified in three cyborg types: Type 1 uses his computer only sometimes, Type 2, however, takes it as a constant reference – the person has a mobile phone, smartphone or tablet computer with you at all – and a cyborg-type 3 always connected, the view has always focused on the display.