Google torches the usual PR playbook in China.

13 January 2010
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A new Facebook flavor for Vitaminwater — black cherry and lime, or ‘Connect.’

8 January 2010
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Consumers invented the newest flavor of Coca-Cola’s “Vitaminwater” brand in the United States — black cherry and lime, otherwise known as “Connect.” Vitaminwater ran the co-creation competition on its Facebook site and announced the winner on 7 January. Vitaminwater has 1.1 million Facebook fans. The product’s label contains Facebook branding and social media references, and is […]

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Stanley Kubrick imagines slates and tablets, 1968.

7 January 2010
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News media tell the American story, 2009.

2 January 2010
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Compassion in Chinese photojournalism.

2 January 2010
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On New Year’s Day, the bridge blog ChinaSmack published a series of previously unseen news photographs from China in 2009. Originally collected for the Chinese Web site Netease, they show enterprise and compassion in photojournalism. In this photograph, migrant workers watch the National Day parade on October 1 from a dormitory in Hefei, Anhui Province. […]

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China’s ’50 Cent Party’ on marketing steroids: Internet hit men take astroturfing to new levels.

22 December 2009
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A Na’vi language primer to ‘Avatar’ — how to out-Klingon Klingon.

19 December 2009
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A blog on linguistics, Language Log, today published a guide to the Na’vi language as spoken on the new film “Avatar.” Linguist Paul Frommer of the University of Southern California spent years developing the Na’vi language, at the request of film director James Cameron. The language contains an actual sound system, syntax and morphology. An […]

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Gosh darn it! Now Tiger Woods has single-handedly killed off celebrity endorsements!

15 December 2009
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59 days to Vancouver 2010

15 December 2009
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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch in the Pacific Ocean at Pacific Rim National Park, near Tofino, British Columbia. From a series of photographs published by The Boston Globe in preparation for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Guaranteed to get you excited about opening ceremonies on 12 February 2010. Photograph of torchbearer Ruth Sadler, a […]

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Media do topography. Bill Moyers does geology.

13 December 2009
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The Los Angeles Times today published Neal Gabler’s thoughtful profile of Bill Moyers.  From the article: “Moyers has never been about now. He has always been about something beyond the moment. Or put another way, while everyone else in the media has been exploring topography, Moyers has been exploring geology. “This belief in the efficacy of […]

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