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September 2007 - Posts

Imagethief has three announcements that he wants to share with readers. 1) Mrs. Imagethief is pregnant And when I find the guy who did it, I’ll kill him! Seriously, it’s pretty good news for us. We’ve wanted to start a family for a while, and are pleased Read More...
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Imagethief has once again found himself commuting between Beijing and Shanghai. This is always an ordeal, and not just because Air China economy class seats ruin my lower back. Last night I arrived at Hongqiao Airport at 730PM to find the taxi line at Read More...
The Wall Street Journal yesterday ran a story on the brief life and quiet death of the computer game "Incorruptible Warrior", which was developed by Ningbo City government to help educate wayward youth about proper civic values. Apparently proper civic Read More...
Here's an interesting and funny post from Rebecca MacKinnon on some puns circulating around the Chinese Internet as means of avoiding some of the shotgun keyword filtering and scrutiny that is used to manage undesirable content. Further proof that a little Read More...
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Imagethief will be joining a panel on the business of blogging at AmCham Beijing on Wednesday, September 19th. I'm actually on the second of two panels. The first is on "digital influence" and will feature Sam Flemming of CIC , Andrew Lih , David Wolf Read More...
Imagethief spent a busy two days helping some representatives of a European country manage a last minute press conference. This was a sudden request that had resulted in 36 hours of breakneck work involving much frantic communication, central European Read More...
Imagethief was interested to read in a CRI Online story that BOCOG's Olympic ticket notifications are being treated as spam by certain e-mail services: People who have applied to purchase Olympic tickets are reminded to pay special attention to their Read More...
A note of thanks to the editors of Danwei for including Imagethief in this year's list of "model workers" (good blogs). I point readers at this not just because they were kind enough to list me --after all, you're already reading this-- but because it's Read More...
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Via David Wolf's Peking Review, an interesting article from the Boston Globe analyzing China's current quality and regulatory problems and comparing them to what the US went through in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It's a few days old, but I Read More...
As a regular user of China's domestic airlines, Imagethief has learned the hard way that Chinese air travel is simply the bus travel of the twenty-first century. It's been a painful process for someone who still recalls flying Pan-Am from San Francisco Read More...
Technomic Asia has a great podcast interview with Steve Dickinson of Harris & Moure, the company behind the indispensable China Law Blog . It's a fascinating discussion for anyone doing in business in China, and provides some interesting insight into Read More...
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Imagethief appreciates that, in the midst of these troubled times for Chinese foreign policy, attention can still be spared for the really important issues. The Beijing News has reported that the kung-fu monks of fabled Shaolin Temple have taken umbrage Read More...
Imagethief was interested to stumble across an AP article revealing that Rupert Murdoch's Harper Collins imprint has purchased the rights to a travel book originally published by a Chinese press affiliated with the People's Liberation Army Air Force: Read More...
Imagethief was intrigued to read in an AP article a week or two ago that Han Sanping, Chairman of the government-backed China Film Group, has called for more patriotism in Chinese movies. Han minced no words, saying: "The reality of this country's economic Read More...