Out-of-home LCD screens in airports throughout the country are getting a high-tech upgrade this summer, thanks to a new deal between C-nario and JCDecaux.

As Internet video moves from amateur hour to primetime, the question arises whether professionally produced material will begin to crowd out the user-generated clips that have made YouTube a media phenomenon.

In a world where you watch "Heroes" on a 50-inch plasma screen, stream it to your laptop for free on NBC.com and download it to an iPod for $1.99, the question arises: Do platforms matter? Do people care whether they're watching "TV" on a TV set, a cell-phone or a monitor at the gym?

Last June, after more than half a century of presenting twice annual estimates for the advertising economy, Universal McCann's director of forecasting Bob Coen did something unusual and, in some ways, very symbolic. For the first time, Coen was joined by a co-presenter, Brian Wieser.

As you might expect, I spend a good deal of my time searching for information. But as I write this month's column, I find myself in the position of going out of the way to avoid some information.