Links: data mining Chinese blogs, China Daily/ImageThief on human rights, a greying China, more doubts on MBAs

As my summer school class and thesis are now in full swing, I am going to turn off essay-style posts for a while -- I just don't have the bandwidth right now. But I will be posting links that I stumble upon. Here's the first batch, gathered over the past few weeks:

• Data mining Chinese blogs to understand consumer trends
  An interview with Sam Flemming, founder of CIC data, a start-up that has created text-mining tools to track blogger and BBS conversations to better understand Chinese consumer trends (ChinaTechNews.com)


• Pot calling the kettle black?
  ImageThief responds to China Daily column on U.S. human rights abuses


• The downside of the one-child policy: A nation of senior citizens
  The New York Times describes a demographic trend that will eventually result in China's seemingly limitless pool of young factory workers drying up, while the population of elderly citizens increases rapidly.


• The MBA is broken
  Computerworld's Mitch Betts points to more evidence that MBAs are not all they're cracked up to be.