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Imagethief video interview from ChinaICT

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:52 AM by will
During last May's ChinaICT conference Imagethief was interviewed by the Christine Lu of the China Business Network . I spoke mostly about my background, the blog and what I thought people interested in working in China should do. The video is online at Read More...
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Attending the Olympics as a PR exercise

Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:59 PM by will
The Wall Street Journal's Mei Fong writes on the parade of corporate grandees attending the Olympics . A couple of quotes frame the imperative of attending for those execs who have big business in China: Lured by the growing importance of the Chinese Read More...
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Don't conflate censorship with astroturfing...

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 7:47 AM by will
... says Paul Denlinger at China Vortex , reacting to Thomas Crampton's recent online video discussion with Oiwan Lam on the 50 Cent Tribe: The biggest difference between astroturfing and censorship: astroturfing is a PR term and censorship is a political Read More...
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The new "That's Beijing" and the art of stench management

Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 12:45 AM by will
Beijing residents may know that a few weeks ago there was something of a rough spell for local English language magazines. The local version of entertainment magazine Time Out was shut down at least temporarily for mysterious reasons. Also, the publishers Read More...
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Is it "war" against Chinese blogs?

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 7:13 AM by will
BusinessWeek's Dexter Roberts has written an article titled " Inside the war against China's blogs " that looks at the impact of China's blogosphere on companies doing business in China, and how a group of specialist PR and monitoring companies help clients Read More...
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Shock! Chinese bloggers not completely obsessed with foreign companies

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:59 AM by will
Ok, so we know that Chinese bloggers criticize a lot of stuff (and we can say from experience that bloggers from other nations do as well). From the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog, here is an interesting piece quantifying what, exactly, Chinese Read More...
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Spontaneous Olympic joy by decree and other news

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Cliff Coonan has a story in showbiz trade Variety that examines the broadcasting problems I posted about last week. The article is something of an omnibus piece on current Olympic issues. Among other things, it gets into the organizers' efforts to develop Read More...
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Chinese mourning rituals and the great Wenchuan quake

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:40 AM by will
During the official mourning period declared a week after last month's Wenchuan earthquake, I put up a post remarking on the government message that replaced the foreign entertainment channels on my building satellite TV system. This got me zapped by Read More...
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Tough times for English entertainment mags in Beijing

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:47 AM by will
As an occasional contributor to That's Beijing The Beijinger , Imagethief heard a few days ago that the Chinese publisher has decided to appropriate the That's Beijing brand from True Run Media, the company that has actually run the magazine for the past Read More...
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Good PR for American tech firms providing quake help

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:08 AM by will
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on some things that American technology companies are doing in addition to donations to help out with quake relief. Google, Microsoft and IBM are all using their technology in various ways to help Read More...
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Shaming companies into donating

Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:52 AM by will
Good post from Stan Abrams at China Hearsay on companies (and individuals) being shamed into making contributions to earthquake relief: Humiliating individuals and enterprises for not contributing enough to earthquake relief is taking all this a bit too Read More...
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The quake changes the game for the Olympics

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Have a read of this article in the Wall Street Journal that looks at the reaction of the activists that have been protesting the Beijing Olympics to China's devastating earthquake: Before the earthquake, China's image abroad had taken a beating. The first Read More...
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China's mourning period: What's on TV tonight?

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 10:20 AM by will
Here is the screen being broadcast over every non-news foreign channel on my cable system in Beijing (click image for a larger version): In this case, it's from what is normally HBO, but it's the same for ESPN, National Geographic, MTV, and the French Read More...
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Does your quake donation stack up?

Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 1:41 AM by will
Sina has collected an illustrated master list of all the corporate donations to earthquake relief, ranked by size, and linked to company announcements. This makes it easy to see who's being generous and who's being stingy or, worse, hasn't donated at Read More...
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The post-quake entertainment blackout

Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:52 PM by will
Reports from the net and Twitter this morning that as part of the three days of official earthquake mourning , scheduled to begin this afternoon at 2:28PM, many and perhaps most entertainment venues, websites and broadcasting are to shut down. For more Read More...
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