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What's on TV?

Posted Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:36 AM by will
Imagethief has a theory that at any given time, any given American cable TV system will be broadcasting an episode of "Seinfeld." Admittedly, I tend to cruise the channels late, but that's what I see. Recent travels have given me an opportunity to surf Read More...
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Seriously? They blocked IMDB?

Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 8:51 AM by will
Imagethief is as annoyed by the Great Firewall (or Net Nanny or what-have-you) as anyone who lives in China and uses overseas social networks. One of the great joys of my pox-afflicted Christmas vacation was having one of my annual bursts of unfettered 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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Hard robots, soft power

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 11:31 PM by will
A few days ago ESWN published a translation of an opinion piece from the China Youth Daily in which the author asserted that the entire movie is an advertisement for the United States Military. Originally I was going to mock the opinion piece out of hand, Read More...
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The risks of success for China's video sharing sites

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 11:22 PM by will
This article is a couple of weeks old now, but I still suggest taking a moment to read Gady Epstein's recent Forbes piece on the challenges facing China's successful video sharing sites. More than any other article I've read recently, this article lays Read More...
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Rough for Expo with all those robot fights breaking out in that nameless city

Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 6:27 AM by will
In 2007, Imagethief actually forked over 160 RMB so he and Mrs. Imagethief could see Mike Bay's first Transformers movie on the big screen at Oriental Plaza. This was before Imagethief Jr. came along and little things like an evening out or even eating Read More...
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Afterquake: Making music with Sichuan earthquake survivors

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:29 AM by will
Amidst all the gloomy, mainstream reporting on the first anniversary of the earthquake take a few minutes and check out this interesting video from Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang. It's for a project called Afterquake , devoted to producing music remixed 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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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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Deterrence, communication and a splendid parade

Posted Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:09 PM by will
MCNAMARA I believe the President made it clear that there would be no firing on ships without his express permission. ADMIRAL ANDERSON With all due respect, Mr. Secretary, we were not firing on the ship. Firing on a ship means attacking the ship. We were Read More...
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Because online video in China is just too much damn fun...

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:37 AM by will
Danwei has translated SARFT's new set of guidelines for online video providers in China. Yet another muddy step is taken in the great quagmire of who really owns regulation of online video. Go have a read. My conclusion: SARFT is doing its very best to Read More...
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Indispensible guides to Chinese net lingo

Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 1:05 AM by will
Having written recently about the dreaded and now entirely overexposed grass mud horse, I thought I would point interested readers at two other useful sources of Chinese online slang and puns. One is chinaSMACK's glossary of Chinese Internet terms , a Read More...
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In a world where cadres greenlight the movies...

Posted Monday, February 23, 2009 7:07 AM by will
Imagethief didn't watch the Oscars for a couple of reasons. First, time-zone difficulty. Like the Superbowl, they're on during my Monday morning, which makes them damned inconvenient. Also, like the Superbowl, the Oscars age faster than a Vladivostok 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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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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