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  • Clearing the fog around Google China reports

    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 ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on January 15, 2010
  • Paul Midler's "Poorly Made in China": Mischief, mayhem, soap

    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 reporting of business events, such as, say, Kurt Eichenwald's ''Conspiracy of Fools'', or on ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on January 7, 2010
  • Obama, the Great Wall and Nixon's Ghost

    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 and blurb are theirs (the title is much better than mine, but I never used the phrase ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on November 22, 2009
  • The only version of China's National Day Parade you need to watch

    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, airplanes aside, felt like it was all in slow motion). More on the parade from me ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on October 2, 2009
  • Green Dam Youth Escort vanishes faster than predicted

    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 ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on July 1, 2009
  • Why I'm not in a tizzy over China's new Internet filtering software

    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 ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on June 8, 2009
  • Comparing surfing habits in the US and China and other worthwhile weekend reading

    A few things spotted over the weekend and worth sharing. Comparing Chinese and US surfing habitsSilicon Alley Insider uses Pew and CNNIC data to build a chart showing the differences between the surfing habits of Americans and Chinese. No huge surprises -- more e-commerce for Americans, more games and IM for Chinese-- but interesting nevertheless ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on May 24, 2009
  • Down the quarantine rabbit hole in Shanghai

    A funny story from an AP journalist who, along with his wife, was quarantined in China for seven days after a two-hour stopover in Cancun:The Mexican stamps in our passports — my wife is Chilean, I'm American — are enough for authorities to pull us out of line at immigration and send us to a medical room where attendants in white lab coats take ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on May 19, 2009
  • Your hardened operating system is no match for my nuclear weapons

    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 be. Speaking to reporters at a press breakfast last week, Gen. ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on May 13, 2009
  • Consultants say hardened Chinese death-nerds are coming for your daughters

    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 that's the terrifying conclusion one might draw if one was to read a long article from the ...
    Posted to Imagethief (Weblog) by will on May 13, 2009
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