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MIIT says reports of Green Dam Youth Escort's demise are greatly exaggerated

Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:29 AM by will
Or so, at least, claims the China Daily : Despite a last-minute delay in implementing Green Dam internet-filtering software, China's authorities and its PC manufacturers said Wednesday they expect the tool will end up on new computers. One day after the Read More...
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Green Dam Youth Escort vanishes faster than predicted

Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:51 AM by will
Well, it appears that Imagethief was overly optimistic about Green Dam Youth Escort's longevity. My original prediction was that it would be allowed to die and in six months no one would remember it. Apparently six weeks would have been closer to the Read More...
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Why is Imagethief suddenly so popular in Taiwan?

Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:55 PM by will
My first post on Green Dam Youth Escort has nearly 16,000 page views so far. This is an unusually large number for a blog where a widely-read post gets somewhere between 1,000 and 4,000 web reads. Oddly, almost all of them seem to come from Taiwan. The Read More...
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Communication is the real lesson from the Green Dam Youth Escort fiasco

Posted Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:10 AM by will
So Green Dam + Youth Escort blocks images based on skin tone. But what if I like Afro-porn? These, and other important questions are arising now that serious analysts (which is to say, people other than me), have had some time to dig into the capabilities Read More...
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Why I'm not in a tizzy over China's new Internet filtering software

Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 11:34 PM by will
Another day, another censorship-related thing to get bent out of shape about here in China.This week it's the dreaded "Green Dam Youth Escort" internet filtering software, which goes right to the head of the nominee list for the annual Imagethief "branding Read More...
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Comparing surfing habits in the US and China and other worthwhile weekend reading

Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 2:49 AM by will
A few things spotted over the weekend and worth sharing. Comparing Chinese and US surfing habits Silicon Alley Insider uses Pew and CNNIC data to build a chart showing the differences between the surfing habits of Americans and Chinese . No huge surprises Read More...
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Your hardened operating system is no match for my nuclear weapons

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:45 PM by will
Further to yesterday's post on hardened death-nerds, from Wired's Danger Room blog : How would the American military respond to an attack on its networks? If we take the commander of U.S. strategic forces at his word, they’d nuke those hackers, if need Read More...
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Consultants say hardened Chinese death-nerds are coming for your daughters

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:43 AM by will
Yes, it's true. Those Chinese death-nerds are everywhere. They're in your bank account. They're in the Pentagon. They're sending naked pictures of themselves to your daughter. And they're completely invulnerable to all known countermeasures! Or at least Read More...
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Demystifying Chinese hackers

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:43 AM by will
Further to recent salacious reports of sinister Chinese plots to hack into the Pentagon/the White House/NORAD/your refrigerator, some lucid analysis of reporting on the issue from Adam Minter. Adam did a Q&A with journalist Mara Hvistendahl, author Read More...
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A few brief thoughts on Twitter and swine flu

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 10:48 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to read a couple of articles in the past day or two criticizing social media in general, and Twitter in specific, for spreading misinformation about the swine flu outbreak. It might not be quite as salacious as rubbernecking Read More...
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Chinese cyberspies? Sheer lies and heinous fabrications

Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:43 AM by will
Alright, I confess I made up the "heinous fabrications" bit. But the "sheer lies" sound bite comes straight from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has clearly worked hard to make sure that its representatives around the world are working from Read More...
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Because online video in China is just too much damn fun...

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:37 AM by will
Danwei has translated SARFT's new set of guidelines for online video providers in China. Yet another muddy step is taken in the great quagmire of who really owns regulation of online video. Go have a read. My conclusion: SARFT is doing its very best to Read More...
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Indispensible guides to Chinese net lingo

Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 1:05 AM by will
Having written recently about the dreaded and now entirely overexposed grass mud horse, I thought I would point interested readers at two other useful sources of Chinese online slang and puns. One is chinaSMACK's glossary of Chinese Internet terms , a Read More...
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Clay Shirky on the fate of newspapers

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:14 AM by will
An interesting read from author Clay Shirky. The first couple of paragraphs: Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the Read More...
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Plugging my AmCham forum's social network marketing event next week

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 4:41 AM by will
Imagethief sits on AmCham's Marketing, Advertising and PR (MAP) Forum committee. Next week my forum is hosting an event on social network marketing in China. I will not be speaking on the panel. In fact, the PR industry will be represented by someone Read More...
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