So the art-imitating-life award goes to Matt Weiner. Along with Erin Levy, a young female protand#233;gand#233; on the "Mad Men" staff, he was seen accepting an Emmy for TV writing just around the same time that Don was shown up at the podium receiving his Clio, advertising's Oscar, in the category of floor polishes and waxes.

For over a year now, email deliverability experts have been talking about the 'fact' that ISPs use engagement metrics (typically not defined by these so-called experts) to determine inbox placement. But calling it a fact is a bit misleading given that none of the large mailbox providers has talked publicly about if they use engagement metrics to determine where emails get delivered.

The last few weeks have seen a lot of press surrounding the issues of privacy and consumer safety. It's a relatively cyclical discussion that seems to be raised every two to three years, but its gaining steam now that the government is getting more involved. I'm not one to talk politics, nor am I one to sit and here and tell you that everything is acceptable in regards to Internet standards for consumer privacy, but I do want to put some of this discussion in perspective.

Google has said nothing about its rumored social networking offering, but it may be that the company has just revealed its secret weapon to take on Facebook. The new Priority Inbox feature in Gmail hints at Social Media's next great battleground: Relevance!

Hoping to be perceived as the genius who sits in the background and waits for the perfect moment to say something profound, IBM wants people to know it touches more than 1 billion mobile phone subscribers daily and continues to develop about 80% of the world's smartphone software made possible through a $100 million investment supporting mobile communications in semiconductors, cellular towers, mobile apps, networks and more.

A Dentsu subsidiary will give U.S. and European advertisers a portal into the Japanese display ad market, as well as gain. Cyber Communications Inc. (CCI) has inked a multiyear agreement with ad marketplace OpenX Technologies to launch OpenX Market Japan, a self-serve online advertising exchange.

WEHCO Media, which owns 15 newspapers including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Chattanooga Times Free Press, reportedly has become the second client of copyright enforcement outfit Righthaven.