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Some busyness

Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 11:12 PM by will
Imagethief would like to take this spare few minutes to apologize to readers for the radio silence of the last week or two. I've been a little busy. What do I mean by that? Well, if delicious idleness is a bamboo hut on a tropical beach, and my normal Read More...
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Illegal Baby part 2: I fought the law and the law won

Posted Sunday, October 05, 2008 4:01 AM by will
Regular readers will recall that Imagethief became a father earlier this year. Having a child requires new parents to undertake many unfamiliar responsibilities. These include the obvious, such as the care and feeding of an infant, and some things that Read More...
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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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Tough times for the country, good times for Jewish comedy

Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:50 AM by will
Although Imagethief is not particularly religious, he is by descent a card carrying member of The Chosen People. He was therefore highly amused by the two following videos: Jon Stewart, in one of his all-time great rants, on congress breaking for Rosh Read More...
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Anti-PR from a poorly-pitched blogger

Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:26 AM by will
Most PR people will tell you that pitching bloggers is a bit different than pitching mainstream journalists (although now that many mainstream journalists have blogs the line is blurring). If you pitch a mainstream journalist badly, say by misjudging Read More...
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A really unfortunate choice of words

Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:08 AM by will
I don't normally go for the straight Chinglish stuff, but this one is worth sharing. Via Language Log : Full explanation at Language Log. A better translation of this might be, "The world's biggest sporting celebration is about to burst forth!" But even Read More...
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Full Battle Rattle screening in San Francisco on October 17

Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:31 AM by will
A note to San Francisco-based readers: The San Francisco Film Society is hosting a screening of my brother's documentary "Full Battle Rattle" on October 17. Details on the venue and a link to ticketing are on the San Francisco Film Society Website . The 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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At last, embedded video in Imagethief

Posted Saturday, September 20, 2008 10:29 PM by will
As a video hobbyist it has always rankled me a bit that my blog engine didn't allow me to embed streaming videos into posts. Finally, after tireless Googling and some nerve-wracking edits to the blog engine and script configuration files that problem 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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Jingjing and Chacha live?

Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:25 AM by will
These two have been patrolling my housing complex for the past week. I haven't seen them make any collars yet, but I've been surfing much less sm*t than usual, just in case: Note : Don't know who Jingjing and Chacha are? Click here . Or, to see them in Read More...
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