It was one of the wettest weeks in many years in San Francisco and that meant staying at home more often than usual. That also gave me an opportunity to get caught up with my emails, do some writing, finish a lot of work and of course read a ton. Here are seven of the most interesting stories from this week:

• A century of fakers: A reported essay on the counterfeit goods trade and the global culture which drives up demand for these fake goods. [Hazlitt]
• A Marine’s conviction: A Naval Academy instructor makes a case that he is innocent and investigation into charges of sexual misconduct was wrong. One of the better pieces from the Washington Post. [The Washington Post]
• Too much TV: Television has a business model problem, and it is killing TV. [MediaRedef]
• The Rise & Fall of the King of Fracking: Chesapeake Energy  co-founder and CEO Aubrey McClendon was a visionary and he couldn’t follow the rules. [Bloomberg]
• The cyber microscope & how it mimics our brains: The invention of commercially viable neuromorphic processor has resulted in this tool from a Boston company, which will aid data analysis at massive scale. [FedScoop]
• Coming soon: The special art of making movie trailers. [CreativeReview]

Here are a few things I wrote this week that might be worth reading:

• Open Letter: Why the cloud business needs better metrics
• My musings on media and what needs to be done
• 12 apps with a billion users
• Ray Tomlinson, RIP
• US has over 90 million broadband subscribers