I experimented to see what would happen if I started "binge-clicking" - basically, clicking on at least one ad on every Web page I was on for a predetermined period. I did this for two days and learned some interesting things: namely, that clicking on ads creates a significantly smaller universe for my media experience.

Once again fellow Online Spin writer Tom Goodwin has piqued my interest. He starts to unwrap a tremendously thorny problem in his column of last Thursday, "Time to Think about Regulation for Disruption." Today, I'd like to take this question up one level: Do we have to rethink government entirely?

I am writing to you this week from the Festival of Media Global. In a sign that I'm now truly old, I was asked to be Emeritus Chair of the Content & Technology categories of the Festival of Media Awards, a job I gladly accepted. As a judge, you get a unique opportunity to see (mostly) well-put-together case histories, typically with business results included. Because the awards are not announced until Tuesday evening, I can't reveal anything about the winners and the losers. But I can tell you about my experiences as a judge at this festival, and other festivals …

Remember Chris Hadfield? Of course you do. The Canadian astronaut's rendition of "Major Tom" has been viewed over 25 million times. But today I'm more interested in his TED talk: "What I learned from going blind in space."

Live-streaming app Periscope was banned this week. Both the NHL and MLB have decided that it's not welcome in their stadiums, which - while totally unenforceable - raises another interesting question: If it's OK to Instagram artwork in museums, how do we make up such rules? How do we define these boundaries? While we are kidding ourselves if we think that Periscope viewing of the Manny Pacquiao fight had a demonstrable effect on box-office revenue, we do get glimpses into future quandaries. This is yet another company "disrupting" a marketplace - and in the process, inventing new behaviors, creating new …

There's a war going on, but you may not have noticed it. It's a subtle war that's about to heat up substantially over the next few years: the war for talent! Companies are going to be fighting for the best talent to fill a bunch of open positions, realizing that not every hire will be an A player right out of the gate.

Following on from the gap we identified last week between brand marketing and the sales/trade/shopper marketing teams, the ANA has delivered a different gap analysis in a new report called "Enhancing Client/Agency Relations 2015." Before we continue, I want to make sure I follow the health and safety regulations here at MediaPost. We take them very seriously, so I want to make sure you are sitting down when you read the following quote, per CMO.com: "Just 27% of agencies reported that clients provide clear assignment briefs. Meanwhile, 58% of clients think they are doing a good job."

If education and healthcare and work are all accessible via a smartphone, don't we need to make them, along with the attendant access to electricity and the Internet, available to everyone in the world? What if access to the Internet means the difference between life and death?