William Moss
Trans-Pacific spin doctor. Technology industry sub-creature. San Francisco, Singapore and Taiwan. Head of global media relations at TSMC.
- On a lighter note on this somewhat morose day, here’s fifteen feet of two inch webbing with a center grommet and a strap adjustment ring so I can re-thread my son’s scuba diving harness and backplate. He’s outgrown his previous setup.
- When you grow up with former technical diver parents, you don't wear the same kit as the other kids. (Also, legally speaking, he will cease to be a "kid" in about a month. Sigh.)
- I was scrolling the Other Site, and the Post absolutely nuked quite a strong Asia reporting team. What a tragedy.
- I agree with this. I literally have a spreadsheet for tracking newsletter and podcast subs (and every other sub) and it makes me a bit crazy. I'm all for bundles, or "Defector" style co-ops that bring together several writers I like, but not all of whom I'd necessarily sub to individually.
- This is not re-inventing big, global news orgs! That's a particular (expensive) product! But it would be a good complement.
- The "one more thing to manage and track" burden is often a bigger factor in my subscribe/don't subscribe decision than the few bucks a month people are asking for. That's the biggest hump a new newsletter etc. needs to get over. And I'm a person who LIKES to support indie media!
- Insert obligatory Jim Barksdale bundling/unbundling quote here.
- Lizzie Johnson used to be at the SF Chronicle and wrote the definitive account of the huge wildfire that destroyed the CA town of Paradise back in 2018. (Called "Paradise," an amazing read.)
- The thing about PR people is that many of us (especially old-school media relations types like me) are huge news junkies. I pay out of my own pocket for a pile of newspapers, magazines, indie news sites and newsletters, including the Washington Post.
- Heaven knows I’ve hovered my finger over the ”cancel” button a few times in the last year or so, for reasons that would shock no one here, but I’ve always kept it because they have some great reporters doing consistently amazing stuff.
- But, man, they are working hard to change my mind. Is there going to be anything left worth paying for when my sub comes up for renewal? I could redirect those dollars to some of the deserving indies on my ever-growing “oughta subscribe” list.
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View full threadBut what do I know? I’m just some PR gremlin. I’ve never worked for a newspaper. Anyway, on to the grim business of seeing which of the reporters I know there still have jobs.
- Dude, SOME of us have to work. You know, to pay for the cat food.
- The closer it gets to dinner time, the friendlier he gets. After which, I am disposable.
- Pogroms, mostly. With a dash of "following a girl" thrown in.
- Be weird if this movie had a sort of "Rocky Horror" afterlife of midnight showings where deliriously stoned people bring squirt-guns, throw toast, interact with the dialogue, etc.
- Kind of a different vibe, I suppose.
- To be fair, navigating SFO international terminal drop-off on a busy day woud be the ultimate test of an AI reaching sentience, which we could measure through the stream of spontaneous profanity it produces.
- Serially having to remind myself to never post this morning.
