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At this week's OMMA Ad Nets and OMMA Behavioral shows just about everyone was buzzing admiringly over last week's landmark Old Spice Twitter + Video campaign. And yet while Weiden + Kennedy was setting a new high bar for online video innovation there were still successes in the garden variety branded entertainment category. Hot on the heels of the popular Man on a Horse campaign was a nerdish rap from comedy duo Rhett & Link on behalf of Dentyne.

Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby argues against government subsidies to journalists and the news media.  (My two cents: anyone who believes that a government-subsidized press would not be a politically beholdened press – a press leashed like a lap dog to its paymaster’s fist – is hopelessly out of touch with reality.)

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Ion Television, a general entertainment network that claims to reach over 98 million US households via cable, satellite and the TV stations of its parent company, Ion Media Networks, has launched an interactive microsite to accompany the primetime crime drama series, "Without a Trace."

John Stossel celebrates America.  Tune in on the Fox News Channel this Saturday and Sunday at 9p/12a ET.

Stossel on Fox Business is moving to 9:00pm eastern time (and to be re-aired at midnight eastern time).  Tune in!

And speaking of Fox, Tom Palmer will appear on this evening’s Glenn Beck Show.

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Each year, the TV drives roughly $70 billion in advertising and an equal amount in cable and satellite fees, and another $25 billion in consumer electronics sales. Plus, viewers spend 4.5 hours a day with it. Google's goal is to get into that marketplace.

My GMU colleague, over in the law school, J.W. Verret weighs in at the New York Times – along with Lynn Stout, Jeff Miron and some others – on the legality and wisdom of preventing BP from paying dividends to its shareholders.

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So who will it be in the battle of the online television providers - Google or Apple? Only one week after Google made the announcement of Google TV, Apple announced it's readying an update to its little used "Apple TV" which enables viewers to stream content from the internet, just like Google TV would.

The Drupal Association is trying to figure out the best way it can help DrupalCamp organizers. To that end, we've create a quick survey for DrupalCamp organizers to help the association determine how DrupalCamps are currently organized and managed.

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Comcast Labs has developed a prototype of a web-based remote control that will extend Comcast's interactive programming guide to many IP-enabled devices.