Tag Archives: Media

What I learned from Dashan

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Will Moss

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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Four lessons from the Burson-Facebook fiasco

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Will Moss

I’m ridiculously late to this, as usual, but people keep asking me about the Burson-Facebook thing because of my years at Burson, so I thought I’d post the gist of the response I’ve been giving. If you’re not familiar with … Continue reading →

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Alibaba’s Alizila is PR. Be proud!

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Will Moss

I just read a post from Forbes’ Hana Alberts on Alizila, a homegrown company news site for the Alibaba Group. Alibaba has hired an experienced journalist, Time Magazine veteran Jim Erickson, to develop the articles for the site: Erickson isn’t “selling out” … Continue reading →

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Unsolicited advice for Xinhua’s new CNC TV news outfit

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Will Moss

To listen to people moan about the fact that China has sixty “Confucius Centers” in the US to America’s zilch-nada in China you’d think the Chinese were wrapping up hearts and minds around the planet while America gets relegated to … Continue reading →

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A handy cheat sheet for interpreting the Google China story

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Will Moss

Should Google have been in China? Did they make the right move in pulling out? Will this influence the Chinese government? What does it mean for foreign businesses in China? Are they evil or not? Who knows? Not me. And … Continue reading →

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Free laptops for NPC delegates – it looked good on paper

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Will Moss

Let’s say you’re a company selling some kind of product. Let’s say your product is –let’s just pick something at random here– laptop computers. Globally, this is a heavily commoditized category jammed with companies selling look-alike products with similar feature … Continue reading →

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Consultants say hardened Chinese death-nerds are coming for your daughters

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Will Moss

Yes, it’s true. Those Chinese death-nerds are everywhere. They’re in your bank account. They’re in the Pentagon. They’re sending naked pictures of themselves to your daughter. And they’re completely invulnerable to all known countermeasures! Or at least that’s the terrifying … Continue reading →

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If you’re angry about Guns’n’Roses surely it must be 1991

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Will Moss

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the Global Times, the nationalist tabloid cousin to the staid People’s Daily, which has decided to get indignant about the new Guns’n’Roses album, “Chinese Democracy”. It’s not that the Chinese people don’t have … Continue reading →

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Sanlu melamine milk powder crisis becomes a national issue

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Will Moss

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 … Continue reading →

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Melamine in Sanlu milk powder? Now that’s a crisis!

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Will Moss

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 … Continue reading →

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