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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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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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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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Your hardened operating system is no match for my nuclear weapons

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:45 PM by will
Further to yesterday's post on hardened death-nerds, from Wired's Danger Room blog : How would the American military respond to an attack on its networks? If we take the commander of U.S. strategic forces at his word, they’d nuke those hackers, if need Read More...
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Consultants say hardened Chinese death-nerds are coming for your daughters

Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:43 AM by will
Yes, it's true. Those Chinese death-nerds are everywhere. They're in your bank account. They're in the Pentagon. They're sending naked pictures of themselves to your daughter. And they're completely invulnerable to all known countermeasures! Or at least Read More...
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Demystifying Chinese hackers

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2009 5:43 AM by will
Further to recent salacious reports of sinister Chinese plots to hack into the Pentagon/the White House/NORAD/your refrigerator, some lucid analysis of reporting on the issue from Adam Minter. Adam did a Q&A with journalist Mara Hvistendahl, author 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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BBC World Service poll: Nobody understands our wonderfulness

Posted Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:38 AM by will
Imagethief was interested to have a look at the BBC World Service's recent poll (PDF) on public views of several major countries and the EU. I came across this via the blog of former China journalist John Pomfret, who called out China's extremely positive Read More...
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Coke, Huiyuan and the audiences that matter

Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:19 AM by will
Nothing as timely as the blogs, I tell you. As everyone on the planet now knows, the Coke-Huiyuan deal has fallen through . It retrospect, it wasn't particularly surprising. It broke new ground in size, and public sentiment was never behind the deal. 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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Clay Shirky on the fate of newspapers

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:14 AM by will
An interesting read from author Clay Shirky. The first couple of paragraphs: Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the Read More...
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The challenge for the "Chinese CNN"

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:04 AM by will
Last week the Christian Science Monitor 's Peter Ford reported on China's plans to revamp its international media presence , including launching a "Chinese CNN" (that presumably won't commit any of the sins of the actual CNN): As officials plan to launch Read More...
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Improved talking points for Chinese media's Obama-edits

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 6:05 AM by will
Imagethief was interested to see that someone at the regular Foreign Ministry press conference actually bothered to ask FM spokeswoman Jiang Yu about Chinese media censorship of Obama's inaugural remarks about fighting communism (a question apparently Read More...
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Symbolism of the new presidential uber-limo

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:46 PM by will
Everything politicians do in public sends a message, and is part of the great of the, galumphing ballet of political communication. And that, in turn, is an important part of how a nation communicates about itself. There was, no doubt, much good transmitted Read More...
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Obama's inaguration speech slightly abridged for Chinese audiences

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:01 AM by will
Reuters points out that Chinese media have deleted a certain sensitive part of Obama's inauguration speech: U.S. President Barack Obama's inauguration speech has a little twist in translations available on some Chinese websites where his references to Read More...
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