A collection of articles and posts that I have been reading throughout the week.
- Wired.com: Breaking Bad‘s Camera Work Perfects the Visual Recipe, Yo – I love this show. Wired does a great job breaking down all of the components that go into making you actually feel that pit in your stomach as you witness some of the crazier events on screen. Massive respect for Michael Slovis and is work on the show directing the cinematics and photography.
- The Baltimore Sun: Violence Against Sikhs Stems From Ignorance and Fear – I was deeply saddened to hear about the recent shooting/violence/domestic terrorism in Oak Creek, WI that left numerous Sikh individuals dead. Being Sikh myself, I know of all the various hate crimes and incidents in the past against Sikhs, but nothing ever as bad as what happened in Oak Creek. A good family friend of mine, Dawinder “Dave” Singh Sidhu, an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico, wrote a great op-ed piece on lessons learned from this shooting, and potential reasons why it happened. I firmly believe that ignorance and fear are usually the root cause to a whole range of problems plaguing the world and our society.
- TechCrunch: A Framework For The $10B+ Native Advertising Market
- Wired.com: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking – This is definitely scary, but good for everyone to read in our cloud-based digital society.
- The Economist: Lonely at the top – I honestly hope this trend continues. Moderates/independents need to be a bigger part of the dialogue and hopefully this trend will help keep our political discourse from veering too far to the extreme.
- The Economist: The masala Mittelstand
- FastCompany: Baratunde Thurston Confesses How His Twitter Spamming Almost Killed “The Onion” – A good lesson for marketers who are starting to think of ways to integrate digital and social media.
- The Atlantic: Superlative Happiness on a Cold Little Rock