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Imagethief is moving -- Please update your bookmarks and RSS readers

Posted Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:45 AM by will
After nearly six years at this address, and over four years with this design and on this platform, Imagethief is moving. This will be the last post on this version of the blog. Please update your bookmarks and subscriptions to the following: Web : http://imagethief.com Read More...
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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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Two posts you won't read

Posted Sunday, February 07, 2010 4:02 AM by will
Imagethief spent the weekend writing two posts about current PR issues (well, one of them was only relatively current). However, after some reflection I've decided to kill them both. While they don't touch directly on work I or my firm is doing in China, Read More...
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A bad case of giant sign gremlins

Posted Sunday, February 07, 2010 3:57 AM by will
Honestly, sometimes I think this country is a giant juggernaut that simply can't be stopped, and other times, well, to keep things polite, I don't. Yesterday I moaned about the giant sign going up outside my apartment windows. Today, the fates have delivered Read More...
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Imagine my joy at this...

Posted Saturday, February 06, 2010 4:48 AM by will
A few days ago, on the construction site across the main boulevard from where I live, a set of huge characters went up, exhorting the workers to "close the gap, finish the building". OK, twenty-foot characters seemed a bit excessive, but exhortations Read More...
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Clearing the fog around Google China reports

Posted Friday, January 15, 2010 5:49 AM by will
A quick pointer to an excellent pos t at the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time blog, which busts several myths concerning Google in China that have been widely repeated in the past few days, including those concerning the health of Google's business Read More...
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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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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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Paul Midler's "Poorly Made in China": Mischief, mayhem, soap

Posted Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:45 AM by will
As a general rule, Imagethief dislikes business books, especially instructional ones. I find them tedious and most of them age faster than caviar on a car dashboard. There are, however, exceptions. Most of these are either books based on journalistic Read More...
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We're back, plus the great Christmas pox of '09

Posted Sunday, January 03, 2010 11:57 PM by will
On Sunday Imagethief arrived in Beijing from two well-earned holiday weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Flying with Zachary), now 22 months, is always an adventure. He's a well traveled kid, but a well-traveled two year old is like a well-traveled troglodyte. 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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Remember that whole Xinjiang thing?

Posted Sunday, December 06, 2009 9:49 PM by will
A quick pointer to Josh's "Xinjiang: Far West China" Blog, which has an interesting update on the state of Internet access in Xinjiang. Events of the past few months have pushed Xinjiang out of mind, but it seems the situation there is a ways from what 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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Diving with the whaleshark at Dalian's Tiger Beach

Posted Sunday, November 22, 2009 7:12 PM by will
Dive nerds: This weekend I went with Steven Schwankert of Sinoscuba to dive in the whaleshark tank at Dalian's Tiger Beach Marine Park. Here's a little video of the weekend's fun. It was shot on an iPhone (I didn't really plan on making a video), so please 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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