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Back in Silicon Valley after 17 years in China and Singapore. Stranger in a strange land. Director of Reputation Communications at Intel. This is a personal blog and opinions are my own. More information at "About Imagethief".Imagethief on Twitter
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Tag Archives: Pop Culture
Life, Death and Radio
News today that longtime San Francisco music station KFOG is no more. It’s going to drop music and switch to simulcasting sports-talk from KNBR. Gen-X Bay Area natives, like me, may remember KFOG as one of the seminal music … Continue reading
Adventures in audio tape
Yesterday Bloomberg ran what was essentially a PR piece for Ballfinger, a German maker of rarefied audio equipment, including reel-to-reel stereo tape decks that start at $11,000. The thesis: reel to reel is making a comeback. This is of course a bullshit … Continue reading
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Tagged Audio, Media, Music, Pop Culture, Radio, Technology
Godzilla vs. the SARFT Monster
I’ve been watching a lot of Godzilla movies recently. This isn’t some kind of weird Cable TV accident, like stumbling onto “Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy” at 2AM when you have a microwave burrito in one hand and a vodka … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Media, Politics, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Rectified.name, Weird
What I learned from Dashan
I don’t have much time for social Q&A site Quora, I confess. It seems to combine the narcissism of blogging (I should know!) with the politics of Wikipedia editing in all sorts of odd ways. I signed up early, lurked … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Media, Nationalism, Pop Culture
The almighty soft-power princess bomb
Chinese soft-power is doomed. I came to this conclusion a couple of weeks ago. The message was delivered in the form of a guy in a mouse suit on ice skates, and I received it loud and clear when Mrs. … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Parenthood, Pop Culture, Soft Power
Imagethief movie minute: Wolverines, oil wells and balls of marine brass
For sheer surreality you gotta love Hollywood. And I’m not even talking about the films. Two PR-worthy Hollywood moments to remark upon today. First, the imminent arrival of the needless remake of cold war teen action flick Red Dawn has … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Crisis Management, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Public Relations, Technology, Whatever
The zombie-slugging toy police car
Imagethief’s son, Zachary, turned two this week. I’m amazed we made it. By this I mean I’m amazed that Mrs. Imagethief and I made it. If the boy’s engine room telegraph is stuck on “full-speed-ahead”, Mrs. Imagethief and I are … Continue reading
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Tagged Beijing, China, Parenthood, Pop Culture, Resident Alien, Weird
