Earlier this week, Ask.com unveiled a new, stripped-down and speedier redesign of its search results that the engine hopes will help it better compete for market share. Gone is the Ask 3D results panel which brought up relevant audio, video and image files in a sidebar next to classic link-and-description search results. 3D drew a lot of critical praise after its launch last year but unfortunately, the short term traffic boost didn't ultimately convince In its place,

Last Wednesday, Reprise Media's Managing Partner participated in Media Bites â€" a breakfast seminar hosted by Advertising Age at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan )nee the museum of Television and Radio(. The event ) additional coverage here courtesy of Ad Age (, which was part of last week's Advertising Week festivities, focused on search marketing for large corporations,

At this point, I think most of the civilized world has established that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession . The signs are starting to crop up in the advertising world: Companies are starting to make hard decisions, like Gawker which announced yesterday that it was dumping three blogs , including Wonkette, in a cost-cutting effort. Cautionary commentaries are beginning to crop up in most advertising publications, like this one ,