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Lessons from Citizen Lab's China-Skype revelations

Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:44 AM by will
If you don't know the story, you can read up on the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal (and again in the Journal here, with more focus on the backlash for Skype). In a nutshell, the story is that the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab , which Read More...
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Anti-PR from a poorly-pitched blogger

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:26 AM by will
Most PR people will tell you that pitching bloggers is a bit different than pitching mainstream journalists (although now that many mainstream journalists have blogs the line is blurring). If you pitch a mainstream journalist badly, say by misjudging Read More...
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Coke and Huiyuan: Let the PR slanging begin

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:36 AM by will
Have a read of this post from the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog on some of the communciation issues Coke is having around its attempted takeover of the Huiyuan juice company in China: More damaging may be the allegations that Coke is trying Read More...
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An angry-youth asks who you're calling brainwashed

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:50 AM by will
Two or three weeks ago the New Yorker carried a good article by Evan Osnos on the phenomenon of China's "angry youth" ( fenqing ). Much of the article was a profile of one young man in particular. In truth, he sounds more passionate than angry. It's worth Read More...
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Free advice for the Democratic Party

Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:37 PM by will
Imagethief is a registered Democrat. I am such both because I feel it is my civic duty to vote, and because I was hectored relentlessly by a large woman with a clipboard when I went to go visit my old grad school in San Francisco a year and a half ago. Read More...
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Summing up how the western world looks at China

Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 6:09 AM by will
After you swallow a fair dose of the Chinapocalypse coverage that tends to ricochet through western media it can be nice to have a little antidote. John Pomfret, the former Beijing bureau chief of the Washington Post and a long-time China correspondent, Read More...
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And you thought the Air Force tanker deal was just about the billions of dollars

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 7:54 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to read in the New York Times today an article about the wrangling going on over the United States Air Force's new monster procurement deal for aerial refueling tankers, one of the biggest defense programs ever. A little back 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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Evildoers beware!

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 10:35 AM by will
From a report on attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad. I remember this term being thrown about by the President earlier in the GWOT, but I hadn't seen it for a while: The violence is a continuation of hostilities between American and Iraqi troops and Read More...
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Uh oh...let's hope we don't see much more of this -- Updated

Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:15 AM by will
Update : See Shanghaiist's update on this situation . Less serious than it first appeared, although not benign. A couple of years ago a good friend of Imagethief's was accosted on Gongti Beilu by a drunk Chinese man who was looking to pick a fight with Read More...
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Sina.com's anti-CNN banner

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 6:19 AM by will
The interesting top banner from Sina's page dedicated to the perfidy of western media : Click on the image or the web page link above for the (large) full size version. The Chinese reads (as best I can translate it): Rise up! Angrily resist the demonization Read More...
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Message force multipliers: Third-party advocates and the Iraq war

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008 4:15 AM by will
If I work for Company A and I tell you that Company A's new product is the best thing ever you will probably discount the credibility of my statement. That is, if you are not three years old or terminally gullible. You'll do this because you'll correctly Read More...
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Jack Cafferty brews more trouble for CNN in China

Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:47 AM by will
CNN hasn't had a good go of things in China recently. Roundly pilloried for allegedly "biased" coverage of the riots in Tibet, they found themselves the subject of a popular website, " Anti-CNN ", and featured in a critical video that went viral in China Read More...
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The New York Times has free PR advice for China

Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:54 AM by will
Responding to recent reports that the Chinese government is seeking external counsel, they write : After facing major protests in London and Paris as the Olympic torch made stops on its journey to Beijing, the Chinese government is said to be looking Read More...
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Isn't there any news on?

Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:43 PM by will
It's 6PM in the US. I've just run a cycle of the cable news channels in the US. Here is what was on: CNN (American domestic service): Larry King Live Headline News: Glenn Beck on "Girls Gone Wild" Fox News: Hannity and Colmes CNBC: Deal or No Deal I can Read More...
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