Newsgroups: There is an active Bulgarian newsgroup soc.culture.bulgaria, whose members conduct vigorous discussions of current events and politics, modern Bulgarian history, and a variety of topics of interest to Bulgarians scattered around the world. S.c.b. is also a source of very funny, if often raunchy, Bulgarian humor. Discussions are carried on in English or Bulgarian, sometimes both at once, and the Bulgarian is written in Latin characters. To investigate s.c.b., use the utility that provides access to newsgroups (this varies from system to system) and "select" soc.culture.bulgaria. Each month s.c.b. publishes a file of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) that is maintained by Dragomir Radev of Columbia University. This FAQ has evolved into a small encyclopedia of information on travel, cuisine, history, art, music, religion, holidays etc. It also contains technical information on electronic communication with Bulgaria and a guide to electronic resources. The FAQ can be acquired at any time by anonymous ftp from "shiva.cs.columbia.edu" in the directory "Bulgaria." Many Bulgarians also participate in the newsgroup alt.news.macedonia.
WorldWideWeb: A Bulgarian homepage in the WWW has been established by Penio Penev. To access it a browser is necessary; currently the most common are mosaic or cello, which provide multimedia capability, and lynx for text only. The Bulgarian homepage contains collections of Bulgarian literature and folksongs, pictures of Bulgarian scenes, the FAQ, maps and bibliographies, and many other files. The URL for the Bulgarian homepage is: http://pisa.rockefeller.edu:8080/Bulgaria/. Plamen Bliznakov has also established a homepage, called Plamen's homepage, with information, including news service reports, about Bulgaria and Macedonia. Its URL is: http://ASUdesign.eas.asu.edu/~bliznako/news.html.
