What does your social media sharing activity say about you? - [INFOGRAPHIC]

Check out how open (or not) we are with divulging our personal information online. According to Pew Research, the more we make, the less we share.

Do you find checking in and other location-sharing activities put you in any kind of danger?

Click here for more on: How Social Media Tracks Every Move You Make [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter

Chiquito Pero Sabroso

I'm starting to document the endless Yelp quick tips and putting to use the tons of food pictures I hoard on my phone. Check out my budding food adventures at: My Delicious Hobby

Children of Immigrants Pitching In

One of my favorite bloggers in Southern California has posed a question to all children of immigrants, whether Mexican, Vietnamese or Sudanese:

What are the expectations within your family? Does the culture you grew up in play a role in your pitching in? How much of this is determined by your own personal beliefs?

Furthermore, how much will you pitch in to continue filling in the gaps that your parents have filled for their families in their respective countries?

From what I've compared, many of the immigrant cultures that live in the U.S. are collectivist groups within an individualistic society. While American culture might not understand the "unreasonable" efforts made to help out family, many of the immigrant cultures don't understand the "abandonment" that Americans embrace.

Click here to pitch in your comments about pitching inKPCC's Multi-American blog

The Wall

Check out the anniversary issue of The Neighborhood News!

Read about a shopping center that has left some community members between a wall and a hard place, as the Midtown Crossing shopping center construction rumbles on.

Click here: http://issuu.com/theneighborhoodnews/docs/aug2011

Reclaiming Backyard Nudity?

Reclaiming backyard nudity is probably the least of these neighbors' worries in wanting more privacy from mcmansions that are built next to their homes... but it sure brings this story to a different level, doesn't it?

And if you own a home, don't you want to have the liberty to walk around your backyard naked without your neighbors in their 3-story homes seeing you? Or is it a risk you take the minute you walk outside?

This Bloomberg story's interesting nonetheless: Click Here

Globe Trotters

The three short films on this Vimeo channel spark the travel flame that forever lives in my heart. :)

Warning, these videos will make you want to quit your job to eat and learn your way through the world for the next year.

MOVE / LEARN / EAT:
http://vimeo.com/rickmereki

Watch "Eat" as a sneak peek of the three films:

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

New horizons

• Today was my first day working with Kotick Marketing Group.

I see a lot of fun projects in the pipeline and tons of new things to learn.

I'm really looking forward to all the problem solving and project management to come.

A toast to new horizons!

• Also on tap is an article on the view obstructing Lowe's wall in a Mid City development. Look for it in an upcoming issue of The Neighborhood News!

• Working on a new food blog, keeping my UN AIDS project alive, and photo slideshows of some recent trips.

The History of Email [INFOGRAPHIC]

The History of Email [INFOGRAPHIC]