They note that remittances from migrants in western Europe have risen fast(although they are probably not responsible for more than a small share of the growth in the east).
They are a fast-growing group, although a relatively large proportion of them are below voting age and even those eligible to vote are less assiduous about it than Anglos are.
Other chroniclers of the dot.com boom - Red Herring, Business 2.0 and Fast Company - are clinging on, althoughthey have been hit by the decline in advertising revenue as well.