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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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Monetize this!

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:14 AM by will
David Churbuck with the best angry response to Associated Press' ill-conceived pay-to-quote-us policy (and follow the chain of links there for more info): Here’s the deal: The Associated Press, a coprolite concept of a global news syndicate used by newspapers 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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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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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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Facebook provides a Chinese take on the source of Western media bias

Posted Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:17 AM by will
Imagethief has been interested to receive in the past two days a couple of notices through Facebook account referring him to a new group (you must be a logged in Facebook user) called "The North Eastern Chinese American Protest." I'll let the group describe Read More...
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YouTube blocked, unsurprisingly

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:53 PM by will
Since last night, most likely due to the posting of video of the Tibet demonstrations, some of which is reposting of material from major news organizations (such as this, from CNN ). Via Danwei and Shanghaiist . CNN and BBC have been regularly blacked Read More...
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Chinese tweets on Tibet

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:31 AM by will
Dave at Mutant Palm has been scanning and translating Chinese tweets (Blogspot -- proxy needed in China) on the Tibet situation from local Twitter clones and comparing them with International ones. It's worth having a look at some of the sentiment zipping Read More...
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Scandalous death of a propaganda image

Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:42 PM by will
The Wall Street Journal has an article (subscription - alternate links below) that nicely retells the story of the fake photo scandal currently sweeping the Chinese Internet. Taken (and doctored) by professional photographer Liu Weiqing, the photo may Read More...
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Athlete blogs: Something else to worry Beijing come August?

Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:27 PM by will
The IOC has bowed to the inevitable and said that athletes can blog --within limits-- from the Games this summer: Athletes have long demanded they be allowed to write their blogs -- online journals of personal opinion or reflection -- during the Games. Read More...
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Let me tell ya about Edison Chen's dirty photos

Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:17 AM by will
With the possible exception of Disney villains, Imagethief cannot think of a group of people that more richly deserve their miserable fates than Hong Kong celebrity Edison Chen and his cavalcade of cupcakes . If I sound unsympathetic here, that is because Read More...
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China Mobile knows where you are -- should you care?

Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 5:19 AM by will
One of the hallmarks of bad China journalism is reacting hysterically when China is found to be doing things that everyone else is doing. Unfortunately, it happens rather a lot, presumably because hysteria shifts more units than thoughtful, reasonable Read More...
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