"Not very good, really," Bear Stearns’ Alexia Quadrani confided this morning, getting the final day of the AAAA media conference off on a somewhat depressing note. Well, depressing if you're an agency stockholder, anyway.

Friday morning. Milling around the continental breakfast at the AAAA media show, and Quantcast's Konrad Feldman asks me if I know how to get wi-fi in the conference area?

Some companies may be concerned about losing employees to the Googles and other potentially greener grasses. Not necessarily GroupM. The behemoth's North American HR director said it's actually optimal to have 20% turnover in a year -- it keeps people on their toes, keeps them engaged and ensures the staff is top-notch.

TargetCast head Steve Farella said online publishers might want to speed up the process of reconciling invoices with buyers in order to get paid quicker -- not so much for their bottom lines, but pleasing the Street.

This summer, NBC will surely do as it usually does and use the Olympics to run seemingly non-stop promos. But when the Beijing games end Aug. 24, the net apparently will segue right into its new season (of course, NBC's said that idea no longer applies since it's now programming 52 weeks a year).

Google sales emperor Tim Armstrong helped open this morning's AAAA media conference with a presentation entitled, "Why Google Is Not Out To Disintermediate Agencies," but for a moment there, it looked like Microsoft might be looking to disintermediate Tim Armstrong.

I ran into O. Burtch Drake last night at the bar in the lobby of the Rosen Shingle Creek during the opening night of the AAAA's media show in Orlando. I asked the past association president. "What are you doing here?" His answer, I'm just here to party!"

Chalk one up for MediaBank in its below-the-line marketing battle with media data processing giant Donovan Data Systems at the AAAA Media Conference. When I searched the wi-fi networks available in the room during the general session this morning, MediaBank's wi-fi hub was among the networks. There wasn't any for Donovan.

This hit MediaPost's inbox just as the AAAA media show festivities were getting underway Wednesday night: Starcom MediaVest Group/Americas chief Laura Desmond has suddenly annoucned that Dennis Donlin will leave as general manager and president of GM Planworks, effective April 1. I'm guessing that's no April Fool's joke.

Group M potentate Irwin Gotlieb offered more to chew on Wednesday for those mystified by the industry's slow progress in moving away from glacial paper-based transactions to electronic ones.