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Clearing the fog around Google China reports

Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 5:49 AM by will
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 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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Seriously? They blocked IMDB?

Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:51 AM by will
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 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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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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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 risks of success for China's video sharing sites

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 11:22 PM by will
This article is a couple of weeks old now, but I still suggest taking a moment to read Gady Epstein's recent Forbes piece on the challenges facing China's successful video sharing sites. More than any other article I've read recently, this article lays Read More...
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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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