http://hungary.blogsome.com Accent of the Hungarian Blogoshpere. Accent on the Hungarian Blogoshpere Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:01:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Healthcare reorganization is a widely debated topic nowadays in Hungary. The restructuring affects almost the whole whale chain from central funding to Hospital venues and doctor positions. Hungary wants to build a better and less costly public healthcare system and it is a hard and painful process. This is why ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2007/09/20/treat-yourself-in-hungary/ This blog started differently than it continues to live on. If you are curious of the original intentions please check out the “about this blog” page. That task was overwhelming to do by myself and for the time being I failed to find volunteer help to continue chasing the initial goals. ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2007/07/04/renewal/ The concept of “outreach” is something very important that come up in the conference. In an oversimplified way outreach is the way of trying to spread the ability to share voices online to places where it is not common yet. I had this strange notion during the conference that it is ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/12/16/a-thought-on-outreach/ I’m off to India to participate in the Global Voices 2006 Summit. Hope to see old friends and find new ones. Last year I came back energized and full of great impressions. This time the cultural environment of the summit location (New Delhi) will hopefully also add to the ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/12/11/off-to-the-global-voices-summit-2006/ The greatest football player of all times has died. Some would call him one of the best, I call him simple THE best. According to stories form many sources he was also a very good man. His funeral day yesterday (link goes to a BBC picture article) has been declared ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/51/ This time you are in for a treat I have come across two English language blogs that are although very different in many ways I found both very well worth of noting. They address very different point of views of Hungary, one is written by a Hungarian, the other is not ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/11/28/additions-to-your-english-language-sources/ Yes, it has been a while since my last entry. There are reasons for that, which once more I’m not going to share with you. But I do appologize for the pause in my blog and I do thank all of You who have wrote to me in email about ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/11/28/long-time-no-see-again/ If you ever read my blog you know I always limited the expression of my own opinion and was try to show what Hungarian bloggers are writing about. This (hopefully once time) I’m going to make an exception. I want to write about four topics: the violence, the lies, the media ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/09/23/p48/ Not long after I started this blog I wrote that it is not easy to chose topics which could be really interesting to an outsider about Hungary. These past weeks have proven me wrong. And I think I’m not very happy about it. First an intro of what is happening ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/09/19/p47/ This Thursday (August, 31st) marks the second International Blog Day. Rebecca MacKinnon at the Global Voices site invites bloggers “to help people understand you and your region’s blogosphere better”. I think the Global Voices Project is a fascinating example of people from all around the World cooperating for a common ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/08/29/celebrating-international-blog-day-2006/ Have you heard the story about the bridge in Hungary that almost been named after Chuck Norris? That is not a joke, even Reuters covered the story. How can this happen? Well the power of online communities as the naming procedure is partly based on an online voting ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/08/26/the-almost-stephen-colbert-bridge/ The quote is from our Prime Minster and I have this strange feeling that under no circumstances and in no reasoning situation should anytime the current Hungarian Prime Minister make a statement like that. Of course he did not mean everyday citizens; the story is much more complicated. It was ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/06/18/you-can-leave-behind-hungary/ Hey all, I know its been a rather long pause in the operation of this blog. There was a reason and I’m not goint to share it with you . BUT, like it or not I’m back. And yet at a very exciting moment, when the new Hungarian government has ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/06/13/long-time-no-see/ I have received questions before on why I do not cover more of the ongoing election. The reason is simple, and I’m going to share it with you later in this post. But as this blog is mainly not about my opinion, I though to do a quick experiment. The ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/04/11/election-result-opinions-%e2%80%93-or-is-it/ This is going to be just a quick shamless self advertisement. So it seems these two weeks have brought the 15 minutes of fame for my blog. First, Budapest featured an interview with me. You can download their show there in MP3 and I again encourage you ... http://hungary.blogsome.com/2006/03/29/hungarian-accent-featured-in-media/