speaking louder breaks the language barrier
Topic: travel
Cristy in Slovakia:

"I learned that many American tourists think that speaking louder breaks the language barrier."

English vs Polish blogging
Marysia Cywinska-Milonas :: BLOG :: BADANIA :: WEBLOG :: RESEARCH ::: English vs Polish blogging:
"Apparently both languages are needed.

I'll try to blog in English as well as in Polish. My Polish audience is really important for me. My English blogging will be the source for my Polish posts.
I simply don't know how to find enough time to do it."

Many of the benefits of blogging are listed above in "Uses for Blogging"...other benefits include:

• Fostering the fringe - ideas are evaluated based on merit - not on source of origin.


• Filtering - ideas with merit are filtered through various blogs. Significant thoughts or posts receive multiple-links and spread viral-like across the blogosphere.


• Multiple perspectives - one-sided perspectives of newspapers are replaced by passionate debates exploring virtually every facet of an idea or concept.


• Barrier elimination - society is about barriers - actual or unspoken. For example, I don't run in the same circle as Bill Gates - a socio-economic barrier (at the absolute minimum!). In society, this generally means that I do not have the benefit of Mr. Gates' wisdom...blogging, however changes that. Opportunities now exist to hear regular thoughts from people like Ray Ozzie, Mitch Kapor, and Larry Lesig.


• Free flow - any idea can be expressed...and accessed by any one. The process of blogging separates good ideas from poor ideas. The process itself has built in quality control - try that in traditional media!


• Real time - discussions and interactions happen right NOW. Waiting for tomorrow's newspaper or radio program seems like an eternity compared to real time blogging.


• Links and connections - the complexity of an information heavy society requires specialization. Yet specialization is futile if a process is not created to link specialties. Blogging serves this purpose extremely well. Disparate fields of interest and thought are brought together (and dissected) in the machinations of bloggers.

Poland's Big Imperial Aspirations
Poland's Big Imperial Aspirations:
ATK supplies cannons to Poland - 2003-08-07 - The Business Journal (Minneapolis/St. Paul): "August 7, 2003
ATK supplies cannons to Poland
Benno Groeneveld
Web reporter
Alliant Techsystems has signed a $44 million contract to supply the Polish army with cannons for armored cars. The deal is the first time a Western-made gun will be sold to the armed forces of a former member of the Warsaw Pact. Poland currently is a member of NATO, the Western defensive alliance. "

Yale University Library - Emerging Markets: The Big Ten Countries
Poland

• Business Polska
• Central Europe Online
• Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center
• Country Commercial Guide: Poland
• Economic Growth Center Collection at Yale: Poland
• Embassy of Poland
• Poland: A Country Study
• Poland Country Brief
• Poland Master Page

Unicef
The Polish Culture From The Polish Perspective: "In the ranking of Poles' fears, unemployment has moved up to first place. "

eurotrash
Topic: travel
Poland - October 2002

If 12 zlotych is too much for you, you might opt to play a bit of Russian roulette and not buy a tram ticket at all. When you board a tram, nobody checks to make sure you have a ticket. So how are the rules enforced? Officials board trams occasionally to check and see that everyone on board is an honest passenger. So, you might never get checked (we weren't). But if you're unlucky, we were warned of mysterious, unnamed dire consequences.

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