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April 2007 - Posts

Thursday PR bloglet: Melamine hogs

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:11 AM by will
This is going be short because I have no time. First: Is the Melamine Hogs not a great name for a metal band? Kaiser , this suggestion is pointed at you. Second, China has real international PR problem thanks to the melamine tainted gluten issue. It was Read More...
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Even Chinese people have a cycle of funk

Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:10 AM by will
A great Liu Qi article translated by Danwei's Joel Martinsen. Read it and empathize . You'll realize that Chinese people are just like you after all. Read More...
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Dr. Imagethief, I presume?

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:48 AM by will
Tomorrow is Imagethief's last day in the office for a while. I'll be leaving a little early for the Labor Day golden week holiday. Where will Imagethief be spending the week? I am so glad you asked. I will be flying to Singapore and from there to Padang, Read More...
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How Chinese net purification news goes global

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:53 AM by will
Chris at Beijing Newspeak sums up the genesis of International coverage of China's latest round of Internet purification rhetoric. Nothing like an insider's eye. [I] did have to send back the first version of it to ask the writer to make sense of embarrassing Read More...
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Spidey shamefully swiped?

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:33 AM by will
Imagethief was a big fan of Spider-Man when he was growing up. I wasn't big into the cartoon ( Spider-man! Spider-man! Does whatever a spider can!* ) but I did read the comics for years. Spider-Man had a certain insouciant attitude with which I identified, Read More...
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Asian media vows to make western media cry

Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 7:31 AM by will
Imagethief was tickled to read today in Xinhua an article from the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual Chinese talking shop, on how Asian media will rise up to challenge western media juggernauts. It seems that Asians take umbrage that they are 96.2% of the Read More...
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CNET 69 and 70: Yahoo in more trouble and n*de web chat still legal!

Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 7:25 AM by will
God bless the contradictions. And thanks to the people who have volunteered as potential LRB authors. I've passed your info onto the editor. Also worthy of a general read is this IHT article on how more countries are looking askance at YouTube. I remain Read More...
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MIA again

Posted Sunday, April 22, 2007 7:47 AM by will
Apologies for slow posting rate. It looks like after a March "surge" I have lapsed back into semi-silence. This has had a lot to do with a combination of a crazy work schedule, post-move errands, and preparation for the May holidays (more on this in an Read More...
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Photo opp cliche of the day

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:21 AM by will
Imagethief has previously ranted about Chinese photo opp cliches in this space (and for the sake of completeness, here too ). That's why I was interested to spot a photograph on Xinhua today of a joint Microsoft-Lenovo event. Here it is : PR and event Read More...
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Singaporean ministerial pay raises are all about you!

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:23 PM by will
As someone deeply invested in Singapore's future, Imagethief has been saddened by outbursts of anger and resentment generated by the hefty pay raises recently awarded to Singaporean ministers by Singaporean ministers. Sure, at first glance it might appear Read More...
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American IPR hawks, remember the little people

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:39 PM by will
Imagethief has read with some dismay of American plans to bring a complaint against China in the WTO as a result of China's flagrant piracy problem. This is typically short-sighted of American industrial interests. If the US government knuckles under Read More...
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Great Xpectations

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:34 AM by will
Here is my spring technology column for China Economic Review . It's a little spot of woolgathering speculation on the future of Xbox in China. Flatteringly, it's been syndicated on the BusinessWeek website. No, I didn't get paid extra for that. The editors Read More...
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Remembering Wang Jianguo

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 9:08 PM by will
Last July I went with my good friend Steven Schwankert to dive the Lion City , a sunken village that lies at the bottom of Qiandaohu lake in Zhejiang. Our guide was Wang Jianguo, a Chunan-based commercial diver and part of the team that discovered the Read More...
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CNET 64-68: Catching up and seeking a replacement

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 7:45 AM by will
I've been lazy about cross-posting the updates, so here are the last few, going clear back to the emergence of the Nail House story. On a related note, I will be retiring from the CNET gig at the end of May for a variety of reasons, most of which are Read More...
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Thursday PR blog: Further things not to do to a blogging journalist

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:34 AM by will
Accidentally send him your PR company's dossier on him. Alright, to be fair, it wasn't a dossier that was sent but an interview briefing book. It's still, however, lifting the PR skirts a little higher than most PR companies or their clients would like Read More...
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Suspect totally hosed

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:47 PM by will
You don't want to be the suspect when the cops in Liaoning province lose patience. Two days ago they came up with the innovate tactic of using a water cannon to blast a suspect off of an eight-floor window ledge. In fairness, they had an airbag set up Read More...
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Why was the China Bowl flushed?

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:39 PM by will
Following up on Tuesday's post , and at the risk of temporarily turning this into a sports blog, an interesting article from a Seattle Post-Intelligencer on why the planned NFL game in China got the -ahem- punt. Among other things, the original idea was Read More...
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Bokane makes me nostalgic for Beijing...kinda

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:53 AM by will
Here's a great post from Brendan O'kane, who writes beautifully but far too seldom. I'd say that's because he has a life, but since it's obvious from the text and upload time of his post that he doesn't, I am not sure why he doesn't write more often. Read More...
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NFL: China not ready for some football

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:37 AM by will
Imagethief grew up in San Francisco. In the 1970s I was far too preoccupied with Star Wars to pay any attention to football (I was ten when the movie came out, and it stamped itself right onto my tiny frontal lobes). However I came of age in high school, Read More...
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Beijing subway collapse: Whose crisis is it?

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:47 AM by will
Following up on yesterday's post about the Beijing subway collapse, I saw an interesting article (subscription) by Mei Fong in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Asia . (I try to get that right ever since one of their journalists explained to our staff Read More...
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Monday PR blog: How to turn one terrible scandal into two

Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 7:21 AM by will
Imagethief loves watching companies hang themselves. Unless they are his clients, in which case he has fits watching them hang themselves because it means sleepless nights in the glow of the computer eating greasy dinners out of Styrofoam boxes. Fortunately Read More...
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