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Analyzing Skype's statement about the China keyword scandal

Posted Saturday, October 04, 2008 5:31 AM by will
Predictably for Skype, the mainstream coverage of the TOM.com keyword trapping scandal has grown, with associated reputation damage for the former naive idealists at Skype and their parent, E-Bay. (Browse examples at ZDNet , Reuters , The Register , GigaOM Read More...
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Lessons from Citizen Lab's China-Skype revelations

Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:44 AM by will
If you don't know the story, you can read up on the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal (and again in the Journal here, with more focus on the backlash for Skype). In a nutshell, the story is that the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab , which Read More...
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What of China's relaxed environment for foreign reporters?

Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 10:44 PM by will
Tim Johnson, Beijing bureau chief for the McLatchy newspaper group (and a standout among the local blogging journalists), has posted about the imminent expiration of the relaxed rules for foreign correspondents that were implemented for the Olympic period. Read More...
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Google, Baidu, and the great China MP3 search swamp

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:02 AM by will
The Financial Times today has an interesting article (subscription) on the few markets where global search megalith Google is not the market share leader. These include Russia, the Czech Republic, Japan, Korea, and as anyone reading this blog probably Read More...
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Sanlu melamine milk powder crisis becomes a national issue

Posted Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:05 AM by will
Like on the top-forty radio show Imagethief used to listen to as a thirteen-year old, the hits keep coming in the Sanlu milk powder crisis. Over the past thirty-six hours the situation has evolved from a company-specific Sanlu crisis to a nationwide dairy-industry Read More...
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Melamine in Sanlu milk powder? Now that's a crisis!

Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 6:56 AM by will
If you want to get people mad --I mean fired-up, torch-and-pitchfork enraged-- screw with their pets or their babies. That's what we've learned over the past year thanks to the unfortunate tendency of the plastic melamine to pop up in the strangest places, Read More...
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Coke and Huiyuan: Let the PR slanging begin

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:36 AM by will
Have a read of this post from the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog on some of the communciation issues Coke is having around its attempted takeover of the Huiyuan juice company in China: More damaging may be the allegations that Coke is trying Read More...
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China's iPhone Girl: Brilliant Apple PR or lucky accident?

Posted Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:37 AM by will
If you follow either Apple, the Chinese tech scene or Chinese Internet buzz, you've probably heard of "iPhone girl". A British man reportedly discovered several photos of this young lady, apparently a quality-assurance inspector at contract manufacturer Read More...
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The trouble with vox pop

Posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:25 AM by will
Imagethief, being an arrogant son of a bitch and a bona-fide member of the Ivory Tower Elite, is seldom interested in what the common man has to say. Nothing gets me to change the channel faster than an "iReport" segment on CNN, or the BBC equivalent. Read More...
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Really, we're just editing for word count

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:29 PM by will
Black and White Cat compares an August 10th New York Times article on Beijing's preparation for the Olympics with a heavily "improved" version run in translation in the Beijing Evening News (with attribution). The Cat creatively shows the omissions and Read More...
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All hail the Olympic Games, except for those who praise them

Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:35 AM by will
Xinhua headlines from the last 36 hours, almost all of which came to me in one Google news alert: Swiss media praise Beijing Olympic Games World leaders, media praise Beijing Olympics U.S. media praises "truly exceptional" Beijing Olympics Iranian media Read More...
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Foreign media vs. Wang Wei II, plus the trouble with transcripts

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:36 AM by will
Via the China Digital Times , this outstanding excerpt from the transcript of Wednesday's IOC/BOCOG press conference (the ninth in a wretched series, we are informed). I've excised some back and forth between the question and response: South China Morning Read More...
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Foreign media incidents during the Olympics: So much for detente

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 1:27 AM by will
The latest incident report from the Foreign Correspondents Club of China is out. It doesn't make for pretty reading: BEIJING: OFFICERS ROUGH UP AP PHOTOGRAPHERS, SEIZE MEMORY CARDS August 20, 2008: Two Associated Press photographers attempting to cover Read More...
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Olympic pavilions deconstructed

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:43 AM by will
For those who are a bit weary of the whole idea of corporate pavilions, Media magazine has a witty review of the pavilions of all of the Olympic TOP sponsors. Each is helpfully compared to the Olympic athlete or icon that it most resembles. Two examples: Read More...
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Nationalism in the news: Jon Ansfield on the Global Times

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:56 AM by will
Take some time and read journalist Jonathan Ansfield's post on Newsweek's China blog recounting his participation in a meeting with the editors of the Global Times ( 环球时报 ). The Global Times is the fiery, flag-waving, tabloid companion to the Party's Read More...
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