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Monetize this!

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:14 AM by will
David Churbuck with the best angry response to Associated Press' ill-conceived pay-to-quote-us policy (and follow the chain of links there for more info): Here’s the deal: The Associated Press, a coprolite concept of a global news syndicate used by newspapers Read More...
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Is it "war" against Chinese blogs?

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 7:13 AM by will
BusinessWeek's Dexter Roberts has written an article titled " Inside the war against China's blogs " that looks at the impact of China's blogosphere on companies doing business in China, and how a group of specialist PR and monitoring companies help clients Read More...
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Shock! Chinese bloggers not completely obsessed with foreign companies

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:59 AM by will
Ok, so we know that Chinese bloggers criticize a lot of stuff (and we can say from experience that bloggers from other nations do as well). From the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog, here is an interesting piece quantifying what, exactly, Chinese Read More...
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Spontaneous Olympic joy by decree and other news

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:28 AM by will
Cliff Coonan has a story in showbiz trade Variety that examines the broadcasting problems I posted about last week. The article is something of an omnibus piece on current Olympic issues. Among other things, it gets into the organizers' efforts to develop Read More...
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The mysterious outage of video-sharing site 56.com

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 7:10 AM by will
The number three video sharing site in China has been offline for a week. What's going on? No one outside of the company or the government seems to know. Kaiser Kuo has been trying to find out. From his blog at Ogilvy : This looks to be fairly grim, and Read More...
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Nicholas Carr: Is Google making us stupid?

Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:58 AM by will
Imagethief has a good friend who wrote for the New York Times as a foreign correspondent for many years. This person (who shall remain gracefully anonymous) had three main complaints about his job: He was paid like a chump; his editors were idiots who Read More...
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Good PR for American tech firms providing quake help

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:08 AM by will
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today on some things that American technology companies are doing in addition to donations to help out with quake relief. Google, Microsoft and IBM are all using their technology in various ways to help Read More...
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Why do Americans like to hate on poor Jing Jing and Cha Cha?

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:46 PM by will
Another year, another congressional hearing at which American technology and Internet firms are taken to task for propping up the Golden Shield. This time it's Cisco taking it on the chin, thanks to the emergence of an internal presentation in which they Read More...
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The post-quake entertainment blackout

Posted Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:52 PM by will
Reports from the net and Twitter this morning that as part of the three days of official earthquake mourning , scheduled to begin this afternoon at 2:28PM, many and perhaps most entertainment venues, websites and broadcasting are to shut down. For more Read More...
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The Chinese police blog seeding program

Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 6:32 AM by will
How to respond to negative comments in blogs and forums is a challenge that preoccupies many an organization, and many an organization's hardworking PR man. It turns out that even the police in Henan, Anhui and Hunan have given some thought to how to Read More...
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The counterfeit hackware ain't your major problem

Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 10:19 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to see an article discussing the security problems of Chinese counterfeits of networking equipment on the breathlessly named "Law and Justice" section of the ABC television network's website. What I found interesting was not Read More...
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Imagethief drinks the Twitter Kool-Aid

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:03 AM by will
Facebook communication has been in something of a precipitous decline over the past couple of months. This hasn't bothered me much, since it cut down on the number of invitations to naff applications. Barring those from the occasional late adopter, stumbling Read More...
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Facebook provides a Chinese take on the source of Western media bias

Posted Saturday, April 05, 2008 2:17 AM by will
Imagethief has been interested to receive in the past two days a couple of notices through Facebook account referring him to a new group (you must be a logged in Facebook user) called "The North Eastern Chinese American Protest." I'll let the group describe Read More...
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YouTube blocked, unsurprisingly

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 9:53 PM by will
Since last night, most likely due to the posting of video of the Tibet demonstrations, some of which is reposting of material from major news organizations (such as this, from CNN ). Via Danwei and Shanghaiist . CNN and BBC have been regularly blacked Read More...
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Chinese tweets on Tibet

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 6:31 AM by will
Dave at Mutant Palm has been scanning and translating Chinese tweets (Blogspot -- proxy needed in China) on the Tibet situation from local Twitter clones and comparing them with International ones. It's worth having a look at some of the sentiment zipping Read More...
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