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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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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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Riots in Xinjiang and the price of omission

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:27 AM by will
To have one ethnic minority erupt in angry rioting looks like misfortune. To have two erupt in angry rioting suggests that a rethink of the overall approach might be a good idea. Urumqi has been in chaos for the last 72 hours, and reports suggest that Read More...
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Further to the whole Jackie Chan thing

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 1:56 AM by will
After posting my thoughts about Jackie's controversial pronouncements at Bo'ao a couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from Nick Mackie, the journalist who actually asked the question that kicked off the whole episode. As Nick points out, the question 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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A few brief thoughts on Twitter and swine flu

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 10:48 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to read a couple of articles in the past day or two criticizing social media in general, and Twitter in specific, for spreading misinformation about the swine flu outbreak. It might not be quite as salacious as rubbernecking 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 celebrity that ate my brand

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:14 PM by will
Just had a read of Shaun Rein's latest Forbes column . Inspired by the fall-from-grace of uber-swimmer Michael Phelps, Shaun writes about the risks of using celebrities as spokespeople, especially in China: The Michael Phelps pot fiasco may blow over Read More...
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Baidu's nasty chickens come home to roost

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:01 AM by will
An interesting Bloomberg article late last week on Baidu's lagging stock price and market share following the multiple scandals that emerged late last year: Chen Chen was so disappointed when he learned that Baidu Inc.’s Web site led some patients to Read More...
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2008 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:01 AM by will
First, Imagethief feels he owes his readers an apology. Anyone who has been with me for longer than a few months will have noticed that the last third of 2008 yielded a sparse crop of posts. For this I blame a very heavy workload and an increasingly demanding Read More...
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How Baidu can dig its way out

Posted Saturday, December 06, 2008 1:49 AM by will
A couple of days ago a journalist acquaintance called and asked me what I thought about the anti-trust and fraud lawsuit that may be filed against Baidu . Her timing was good because I'd spent a large chunk of last Sunday writing a long post about Baidu. Read More...
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Eerie foreshadowing of Huang Guangyu's fate

Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 5:54 AM by will
If you follow China business news then you've probably heard or read about the arrest of Huang Guangyu , chairman of the huge Gome home appliance store chain and China's richest man. As Time's Austin Ramzy points out , being named on China's rich list Read More...
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Sanlu melamine milk powder crisis becomes a national issue

Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:05 AM by will
Like on the top-forty radio show Imagethief used to listen to as a thirteen-year old, the hits keep coming in the Sanlu milk powder crisis. Over the past thirty-six hours the situation has evolved from a company-specific Sanlu crisis to a nationwide dairy-industry Read More...
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Melamine in Sanlu milk powder? Now that's a crisis!

Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 6:56 AM by will
If you want to get people mad --I mean fired-up, torch-and-pitchfork enraged-- screw with their pets or their babies. That's what we've learned over the past year thanks to the unfortunate tendency of the plastic melamine to pop up in the strangest places, Read More...
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Why child-singing-gate is a PR perfect storm -- Amended

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:52 AM by will
Amended: Sorry--this wasn't meant to be published. It was a placeholder and a few notes for a possible full-length post. Apologies to all those who thought I'd got lazy and decided to move the tweet format into my regular blog posts. However, for posterity, Read More...
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