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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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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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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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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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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 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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Down the quarantine rabbit hole in Shanghai

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:44 AM by will
A funny story from an AP journalist who, along with his wife, was quarantined in China for seven days after a two-hour stopover in Cancun: The Mexican stamps in our passports — my wife is Chilean, I'm American — are enough for authorities to pull us out 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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Hubei cigarette purchasing plan extinguished

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 4:54 AM by will
It turns out that the plan to have local officials prop up the cigarette market in Hubei has gone up up in smoke. Seems the people were fuming. From China Daily : The order made headlines in major newspapers around the world after being made public, triggering Read More...
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Hubei is a party province, and we don't mean politically

Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 7:00 AM by will
We have to hand it to the Gong'an county government in Hubei, which has hit upon a novel approach to expanding the tax base in these straitened times: Order local officials to smoke more cigarettes : Officials in a county in central China have been told Read More...
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Q: So you've just been accused of being the source of swine flu...

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 1:26 AM by will
...how do you reply? A: Well, if you're a Chinese government spokesperson you probably rarely pass up an opportunity to bury your positive points under much more quotable anger. James Fallows notes the predictably pyrotechnic response from Chinese government 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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Oh, Jackie

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:32 AM by will
Imagethief sends his deepest sympathies to the organizers of the Bo'ao Forum for Asia, who's main contribution to the public discourse this year is a fierce debate on the meaning of what Jackie Chan said during a panel discussion he participated in. Personally, Read More...
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