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After nearly six years at this address, and over four years with this design and on this platform, Imagethief is moving. This will be the last post on this version of the blog. Please update your bookmarks and subscriptions to the following: Web : http://imagethief.com...
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Imagethief has a theory that at any given time, any given American cable TV system will be broadcasting an episode of "Seinfeld." Admittedly, I tend to cruise the channels late, but that's what I see. Recent travels have given me an opportunity to surf...
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Imagethief spent the weekend writing two posts about current PR issues (well, one of them was only relatively current). However, after some reflection I've decided to kill them both. While they don't touch directly on work I or my firm is doing in China,...
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Honestly, sometimes I think this country is a giant juggernaut that simply can't be stopped, and other times, well, to keep things polite, I don't. Yesterday I moaned about the giant sign going up outside my apartment windows. Today, the fates have delivered...
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A few days ago, on the construction site across the main boulevard from where I live, a set of huge characters went up, exhorting the workers to "close the gap, finish the building". OK, twenty-foot characters seemed a bit excessive, but exhortations...
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A quick pointer to an excellent pos t at the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog, which busts several myths concerning Google in China that have been widely repeated in the past few days, including those concerning the health of Google's business...
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Imagethief stumbled blearily to his computer this morning expecting a relaxed scan of the news but found the Chinese Twittersphere ablaze with the news of Google's bombshell blog post , which went up in the middle of the night early this morning our time....
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Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of the great joys of my pox-afflicted Christmas vacation was having one of my annual bursts of unfettered...
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As a general rule, Imagethief dislikes business books, especially instructional ones. I find them tedious and most of them age faster than caviar on a car dashboard. There are, however, exceptions. Most of these are either books based on journalistic...
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Hi, Zach-o-philes Photos from Zachary's Christmas trip to California are now online on my Flickr page. Click here for the Christmas set . More may be added later as I get pictures from other cameras. The set includes photos of Jesse, Abby and Zoe also....
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On Sunday Imagethief arrived in Beijing from two well-earned holiday weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Flying with Zachary), now 22 months, is always an adventure. He's a well traveled kid, but a well-traveled two year old is like a well-traveled troglodyte....
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Update : Due to the obnoxious autoplay of the two videos, I have removed the embedded versions so as not to drive people who visit the site rather than using RSS totally insane. You can follow the links in the paragraph below to view parts one and two....
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A quick pointer to Josh's "Xinjiang: Far West China" Blog, which has an interesting update on the state of Internet access in Xinjiang. Events of the past few months have pushed Xinjiang out of mind, but it seems the situation there is a ways from what...
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On the sidelines of Ad:Tech Imagethief was cornered for a brief interview by the video sharing service Youku. The results are below. Won't be anything in this brief discussion that my audience doesn't already know, but you can check out the seasonal goatee....
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Dive nerds: This weekend I went with Steven Schwankert of Sinoscuba to dive in the whaleshark tank at Dalian's Tiger Beach Marine Park. Here's a little video of the weekend's fun. It was shot on an iPhone (I didn't really plan on making a video), so please...
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With everyone else on the planet weighing in on Obama's visit to China last week, I didn't want to miss the party. I wrote a brief article for the website of the magazine Foreign Policy comparing Chinese and American press coverage of the visit. The title...
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Imagethief will be moderating the digital PR panel at Ad:Tech Beijing (or, as they style it, ad:tech) tomorrow (November 18, Wednesday). Panelists will include Hong Kong-based Jeremy Woolf, SVP and global social media practice lead for Text 100; Vincent...
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From the strange PR files comes this article in today's Shanghai Daily about the Guizhou provincial pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. The theme is apparently liquor and girls. This seems like a winner on many levels (after all, it worked for the NFL), but...
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Hi, everyone After a long absence, here are some new photos of Zachary, taken during a day trip to the Mutianyu Great Wall, outside Beijing, along with Olivia's brother, Glenn. You can find the new photos on Flickr here . Other photos from that day out...
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Note : As threatened, Imagethief is coming out of hiatus from time to time, when things catch his eye. Last Wednesday, the 21st, the IT news channel of giant Chinese portal Sohu published the transcript of an interview of Sohu CEO Charles Zhang by Hong...
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An outstanding video from photojournalist Dan Chung, who was in the stands for yesterday's National Day parade and has produced a three-and-a-half minute version with a mix of time-lapse and slow motion. Much more watchable the tedious CCTV version (which,...
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We interrupt this hiatus, as we threatened we would from time to time, to bring you some video from this evening's dress rehearsal for the upcoming military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. As it happens, the...
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Zach and Olivia are currently enjoying a trip to the US, which means dad is living the exciting bachelor life in Beijing. This consists mostly of watching TV, it turns out. Which means its not really all that different from my actual bachelor life, back...
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Imagethief arrived in China on June 6th, 2004, a naive and wide-eyed whelp of just 36. The last five years have been quite an education, and it's an older and (incrementally) wiser Imagethief who corresponds with you today. China years are like dog years....
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Funny stuff from satirical newspaper, The Onion . They've been "sold" to a Chinese fish company. This has been all over Twitter the last day or two, but for those of you who aren't on Twitter, you can find it here . Don't miss the website of The Onion'...
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