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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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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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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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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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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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Musical bad PR...

Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:59 PM by will
It's funny, listenable (if you like country) and tragic all at the same time: As an amateur musician and frequent shipper of expensive things like underwater photography gear, this resonates. H/T @melvinyuan. Note : If you're reading this on Facebook, 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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Don't be too CNBC: Xinhua slaps down foreign financial media

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 8:14 AM by will
In the latest salvo in the largely hidden war over the right to distribute financial news in China, Xinhua has accused western media of being complicit in the financial crisis. This claim has been made elsewhere, most famously by Jon Stewart in his now Read More...
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Another AmCham event plug: Maximizing the value of CSR

Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 6:40 AM by will
Once again I am puffing an event organized by the Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations (MAP) Forum at AmCham. In addition to helping to arrange this event, Imagethief, in his professional agency-guy guise, will be moderating the discussion portion. Read More...
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Coke, Huiyuan and the audiences that matter

Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:19 AM by will
Nothing as timely as the blogs, I tell you. As everyone on the planet now knows, the Coke-Huiyuan deal has fallen through . It retrospect, it wasn't particularly surprising. It broke new ground in size, and public sentiment was never behind the deal. Read More...
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Pardon my executive jet

Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:04 AM by will
What do you do when your product becomes the very symbol of everything that's causing popular rage to boil in the United States? Ask the executive jet industry , via the New York Times : The [executive jet] industry had already had a slowdown last fall, Read More...
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The end of Beijing's building boom

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 6:56 AM by will
I've been wondering why the cranes atop the concrete skeleton going up across the street haven't started moving again, even though the lunar new year is well over. This very interesting LA Times article may have the answer: By [distressed real estate Read More...
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