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A quick pointer to an excellent post 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 in China, whether or not they already uncensored search results here, and more. From ...

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. Titled ''A new approach to China'', the post, by Google's Senior Vice President for Corporate ...

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 Internet use. After months of sipping my Internet through the narrow and frequently blocked ...

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 might be considered normal, even in China.

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 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) declared a postponement to the July 1 start ...

Well, it appears that Imagethief was overly optimistic about Green Dam Youth Escort's longevity. My original prediction was that it would be allowed to die and in six months no one would remember it. Apparently six weeks would have been closer to the mark. Today was the day from which computer manufacturers were to be officially required to ...

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 of Jinhui's now infamous software package. The verdict is pretty much as you might have ...

Another day, another censorship-related thing to get bent out of shape about here in China.This week it's the dreaded ''Green Dam Youth Escort'' internet filtering software, which goes right to the head of the nominee list for the annual Imagethief ''branding that translates badly'' award. They can collect the statuette, a little plastic model of ...

...they intercept your newspaper because they think it's ''cult propaganda''. From Danwei's Joel Martinsen, a case study from the ''you couldn't make it up'' school of media management:A major Xinjiang company has come away with a black eye after going up against a top-selling newspaper. On April 15, Xinjiang Property Management, a subsidiary of ...

Take a moment and read Rebecca MacKinnon's post on her recent interview with the founders of Anti-CNN, the Chinese website that sprang up in the wake of what was seen by many Chinese people to be biased coverage of the unrest in Tibet in March, 2008. A very interesting overview of the attitudes and intentions of the people behind a site that ...