![]() ![]() They helped create the dot.com bubble of inflated salaries and unlimited expectations that burst so mercilessly in 2000–01. With little certainty about what the successful and manageable applications of the World Wide Web would be, media corporations and their leaders nonetheless rushed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars so as not to get left behind. Knowing inside account of the major media conglomerates’ efforts to embrace and profit from the ’90s dot.com boom.Īs the New York Post’s first computer/Internet columnist, Motavalli had a ringside seat while Disney, Time Warner, News Corp., and others tripped over themselves to get on board the emerging Internet phenomenon. As Olszewski tells it, Myanmar is colorful and romantic, and its people-who just happen to be mostly very poor and singularly repressed-are delightful, charming and filled with a joyous zest for life. The author describes local festivals and Buddhist ceremonies extols the beauty and demeanor of Asian women, whom he clearly admires and rants against other expats, whom he sees as arrogant and ignorant. His worst experience was undergoing surgery for gallstones in a Yangon hospital that had no painkillers containing opiates. ![]() In a country ruled by a brutally repressive military regime, Olszewski led a privileged expatriate existence: attending parties and opening nights of cultural events, gossiping in cafes and bars, bemoaning the lack of electricity and hot water, learning to chew betel nut, drinking hash beer and snake wine, eyeing the passing women. His memoir concentrates on “ ‘ordinary’ people” and “the ‘Chestertonian’ trivialities of life” (the author’s arch use of quotation marks is just one of his irritating traits). Hackneyed reflections from an Australian journalist who spent about a year-and-a-half in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Rangoon, Burma).Īlthough he was there in 2003–04 to train reporters for the rigidly censored English-language newspaper, The Myanmar Times, Olszewski, former editor of Australian Playboy and leader of the Australian Marijuana Party, has chosen to write about Myanmar from a nonpolitical perspective.
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