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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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Interviewed by Youku about (naturally) online video

Posted Monday, November 23, 2009 12:23 AM by will
On the sidelines of Ad:Tech Imagethief was cornered for a brief interview by the video sharing service Youku. The results are below. Won't be anything in this brief discussion that my audience doesn't already know, but you can check out the seasonal goatee. Read More...
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Obama, the Great Wall and Nixon's Ghost

Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:40 AM by will
With everyone else on the planet weighing in on Obama's visit to China last week, I didn't want to miss the party. I wrote a brief article for the website of the magazine Foreign Policy comparing Chinese and American press coverage of the visit. The title Read More...
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At Ad:Tech on Wednesday

Posted Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:24 AM by will
Imagethief will be moderating the digital PR panel at Ad:Tech Beijing (or, as they style it, ad:tech) tomorrow (November 18, Wednesday). Panelists will include Hong Kong-based Jeremy Woolf, SVP and global social media practice lead for Text 100; Vincent Read More...
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Sail a river of moonshine at Guizhou's expo pavilion

Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:47 AM by will
From the strange PR files comes this article in today's Shanghai Daily about the Guizhou provincial pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. The theme is apparently liquor and girls. This seems like a winner on many levels (after all, it worked for the NFL), but Read More...
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Don't scoop the reporter who interviews you, and other PR basics

Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:28 AM by will
Note : As threatened, Imagethief is coming out of hiatus from time to time, when things catch his eye. Last Wednesday, the 21st, the IT news channel of giant Chinese portal Sohu published the transcript of an interview of Sohu CEO Charles Zhang by Hong Read More...
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The only version of China's National Day Parade you need to watch

Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 8:16 AM by will
An outstanding video from photojournalist Dan Chung, who was in the stands for yesterday's National Day parade and has produced a three-and-a-half minute version with a mix of time-lapse and slow motion. Much more watchable the tedious CCTV version (which, Read More...
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Five-year retrospective -- Imagethief on hiatus until 2010

Posted Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:24 AM by will
Imagethief arrived in China on June 6th, 2004, a naive and wide-eyed whelp of just 36. The last five years have been quite an education, and it's an older and (incrementally) wiser Imagethief who corresponds with you today. China years are like dog years. Read More...
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Musical bad PR...

Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:59 PM by will
It's funny, listenable (if you like country) and tragic all at the same time: As an amateur musician and frequent shipper of expensive things like underwater photography gear, this resonates. H/T @melvinyuan. Note : If you're reading this on Facebook, 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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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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MIIT says reports of Green Dam Youth Escort's demise are greatly exaggerated

Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 6:29 AM by will
Or so, at least, claims the China Daily : Despite a last-minute delay in implementing Green Dam internet-filtering software, China's authorities and its PC manufacturers said Wednesday they expect the tool will end up on new computers. One day after the 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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Communication is the real lesson from the Green Dam Youth Escort fiasco

Posted Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:10 AM by will
So Green Dam + Youth Escort blocks images based on skin tone. But what if I like Afro-porn? These, and other important questions are arising now that serious analysts (which is to say, people other than me), have had some time to dig into the capabilities Read More...
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