I recently reviewed Charles Paul Lewis’ book How The East Was Won: The Impact Of Multinational Companies On Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Union (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, $69.95, hardcover). While the book does not offer much in the way for social scientists except for the encouragement to reconsider anti-MNC research, it is a pleasant account for the casual reader of what MNC’s accomplished in CEE.
The review can be found in the March 20, 2006 issue of By George.
2005 music sales figures are out and a major music conference is occurring, with online sales being a key focus of both. Here’s yet another deconstruction of the music industry written by me:
Net neutrality is something that concerns me greatly. Allowing ISPs to manipulate the data sent between our homes and offices and the rest of the Internet is disconcerting. I’ve written up a few articles, some from a reporter’s perspective and others from an advocates’ perspective, on this issues and other related regulatory issues.
Here are two of those articles, both of which are from By George, a daily journal written by Neil George: