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Olympic pavilions deconstructed

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:43 AM by will
For those who are a bit weary of the whole idea of corporate pavilions, Media magazine has a witty review of the pavilions of all of the Olympic TOP sponsors. Each is helpfully compared to the Olympic athlete or icon that it most resembles. Two examples: Read More...
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An unfortunate glimpse into my Olympic stream of consciousness

Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 12:35 AM by will
This probably counts as an abuse of blogging, but for posterity, here is the stream of 40-odd tweets I posted during last Friday's opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. I've flipped them back into chronological order and removed the extraneous Read More...
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I don't care that China has more net users than the US

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:46 AM by will
Seeing all the headlines about how China now has more Internet users than the US has given Imagethief the same unpleasant feeling that he gets when he runs a strip of nylon cordura between his teeth. Imagethief has no problem with China having more Internet Read More...
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Olympic complaints: Po-faced denials hitting their limits?

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:00 PM by will
From the Sydney Morning Herald : Organisers had repeatedly claimed that internet would not be censored during the Games but at the press conference a Wall Street Journal journalist produced his laptop and showed that sites such as the BBC in China and Read More...
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BDA's Duncan Clark: "WeTube"

Posted Sunday, July 27, 2008 6:39 AM by will
Via Thomas Crampton , Duncan Clark, of telecoms consultancy BDA , has written an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal Asia on the recent regulatory woes of China's video sharing sites: [In] a sign of the ebb and flow of Chinese Internet regulation, Read More...
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Jack Ma's e-mail as internal and external communication

Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 7:04 AM by will
Via the Wall Street Journal's China Journal , Paul Denlinger at China Vortex has translated an internal e-mail that Alibaba founder and CEO Jack Ma wrote and distributed to his staff recently. The e-mail promptly found its way to Sina and was duly published. 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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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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The mysterious outage of video-sharing site 56.com

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:10 AM by will
The number three video sharing site in China has been offline for a week. What's going on? No one outside of the company or the government seems to know. Kaiser Kuo has been trying to find out. From his blog at Ogilvy : This looks to be fairly grim, and 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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Why do Americans like to hate on poor Jing Jing and Cha Cha?

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:46 PM by will
Another year, another congressional hearing at which American technology and Internet firms are taken to task for propping up the Golden Shield. This time it's Cisco taking it on the chin, thanks to the emergence of an internal presentation in which they 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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The Chinese police blog seeding program

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 6:32 AM by will
How to respond to negative comments in blogs and forums is a challenge that preoccupies many an organization, and many an organization's hardworking PR man. It turns out that even the police in Henan, Anhui and Hunan have given some thought to how to Read More...
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