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My name is Will Moss. I spent 17 years in Singapore and China doing computer games, e-commerce and public relations before returning to the Bay Area in 2013. I am director of international and corporate communications for Motorola Mobility. This is a personal blog, and the opinions here are my own. For more information see About Imagethief or contact me at will [at] imagethief [dot] com.
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Tag Archives: Environment
Rectified.name: I’ll Be the Judge of the Air Quality in These Parts
When I was young, lithe* and had elastic knees I studied the Japanese martial art Aikido. Aikido is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, despite what you saw in all those Steven Segal movies, it is very much bound … Continue reading
Tagged China, Environment, Internet, Politics, Public Relations, Rectified.name, Soft Power
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Rectified.name: In Defense of the Fuzz
For many years I lived in Singapore, which is right on the equator and has roughly two seasons: slightly more rainy, and slightly less rainy. Otherwise, it was pretty much hot and humid throughout, which always used to freak me … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing, Environment, Rectified.name, Resident Alien, Whatever
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Sinica: Libya, Zhao Liang sells out, and slaking North China’s terrible thirst
I was back on Sinica this week for our discussion on China’s reaction to the Libya uprising, the evolving work of documentary film-maker Zhao Liang, and the state of the immense south-north water diversion project. We didn’t have too much … Continue reading
Tagged China, Environment, Media, Politics, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Sinica
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Sinica podcast: China’s environmental collapse
Last week I had the pleasure of co-hosting Sinica with Kaiser as we discussed China’s environment with Guardian journalist and author Jonathan Watts and Alex Wang, director of the China Environmental Law project at the Natural Resources Defense Council. That … Continue reading
Tagged Books, China, Environment, Sinica
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The mysterious undead tiger conspiracy of the Wanda mountains
As an observer of PR, one of the things I like about China is that the threshold for launching a cover-up is rock bottom. Sure, they can go big, as with the Songhua river benzene spill or the great melamine … Continue reading
Tagged China, Coverups, Environment, Media, Propaganda, Weird
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Is Wal-Mart’s eco-consciousness in China more than PR?
Sunday is shopping day in the Imagethief household, so this morning Mrs. Imagethief, Zachary and I bundled ourselves up and headed out to Wal-Mart. Before you gasp in a fit of effete surprise, let me explain. As a card-carrying Bay … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Environment, Labor, Public Relations, USA
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Will we all burn in a fire made of mooncake packaging?
Imagethief likes the Mid-Autumn Festival. I like it because even though it actually comes in late summer, it reminds me of autumn, and autumn is famously the nicest time of year in Beijing. In any year devoid of Olympic rigging, … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Environment, Food, Rants
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Fly the feces-free skies of China Southern
Few things have provided more grist for Imagethief’s gripemill than Chinese airlines. A simple search of this website for various permutations of China+Airline+Travel will make that abundantly clear. In part this hostility is unfair. Chinese airlines are every bit as … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Business, Environment, Rants, Resident Alien, Weird, Whatever
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Dear lord, why not Paul Hogan?
Or Yahoo Serious, for that matter? I was raised never to speak ill of the dead. Unfortunately that lesson, like so many others, didn’t really stick. So I thought I’d take a moment to reflect upon the early passing of … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Environment, Media, Scuba Diving, Whatever
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Harbin aftermath: Government vows to thoroughly scape all goats
Catastrophes are fun to watch, but not nearly so much fun as the aftermath of kicking, screaming and recriminations as blame is liberally heaped and fingers pointed. Katrina lasted only a day, after all, but the operatic fallout has reverberated … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, China in the News, Crisis Management, Environment, Politics, Propaganda, Public Relations
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