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What's on TV?

Posted Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:36 AM by will
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 Read More...
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A bad case of giant sign gremlins

Posted Sunday, February 07, 2010 3:57 AM by will
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 Read More...
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Imagine my joy at this...

Posted Saturday, February 06, 2010 4:48 AM by will
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 Read More...
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Google detonates the China corporate communications script

Posted Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:31 PM by will
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. Read More...
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Paul Midler's "Poorly Made in China": Mischief, mayhem, soap

Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:45 AM by will
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 Read More...
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Imagethief digs into PR in China with Blue Ocean Network

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 12:23 AM by will
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. Read More...
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Remember that whole Xinjiang thing?

Posted Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:49 PM by will
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 Read More...
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Interviewed by Youku about (naturally) online video

Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 12:23 AM by will
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. Read More...
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Diving with the whaleshark at Dalian's Tiger Beach

Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 7:12 PM by will
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 Read More...
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Obama, the Great Wall and Nixon's Ghost

Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:40 AM by will
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 Read More...
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At Ad:Tech on Wednesday

Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:24 AM by will
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 Read More...
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Sail a river of moonshine at Guizhou's expo pavilion

Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:47 AM by will
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 Read More...
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Don't scoop the reporter who interviews you, and other PR basics

Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:28 AM by will
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 Read More...
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The only version of China's National Day Parade you need to watch

Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 8:16 AM by will
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, Read More...
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Video: Tanks roll in Beijing for the PRC 60th anniversary parade rehearsal

Posted Sunday, September 06, 2009 8:41 AM by will
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 Read More...
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