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The International Academy of Web Television is hosting a Web TV Leadership Luncheon for the Digital Content NewFronts in New York City. We're streaming the event live from Chelsea Manor at 9:30 am Pt / 12:30 pm Pt. At the luncheon, the panel discussion will begin looking at the impact of the NewFronts and the increase of advertiser attention—and budget—on the development and production of original online programming. Panel: Eli Goodman, Chief Evangelist of comScore Rob Barnett, CEO of My Damn Channel Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 Allen DeBevoise, CEO and Chairman of Machinima Moderator: Michael Learmonth, Digital Editor of AdAge Iawtv Chairman Paul Kontonis and Tubefilter Founder Drew Baldwin will kick off the afternoon with opening remarks

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A man not shown on screen listens to the radio and arrives at the radio station where he shoots the host, his guest and the sound engineer. McGee (Sean Murray) and Tony (Michael Weatherly) actually discuss something in a civil tone and agree on something to Ziva's (Cote de Pablo) surprise, this being baseball and they attempt to explain the finer points of the game to her. The radio host, Gator (Eli Goodman) was shot three times making him the intended target. Tony messes around with the the radio equipment and plays back a recording where Gator intended to expose a great threat to national security. Tony and Ziva talk to his wife,Sarah (Hannah Minninen) - he was a good man really and had received an offer for recruitment from an extremist group, who had a bomb. Abby (Pauley Perrette) finds the type of gun used was hunting rifle.

"What we do at Google and what we've done for years is to not inject any subjectivity into these algorithms," says Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and head of the company's search quality, ranking, and algorithm team. "We didn't want to introduce any bias into the mathematical modeling--our modeling is predicting, given a letter, what's the probability of completion."

Singhal is referring to Google Instant, the results-as-you-type feature the company introduced months ago that has been criticized for having a brand bias. When the system was first overhauled, the blogoshere quickly noticed that many Instant queries were dominated by major brands: type E, and the first suggestion is eBay, J gets you JetBlue, V for Verizon, and so forth. (For a rhyming-couplet run-down of our ABCs, head here.) Had these results been bought? Could they be? Singhal is unequivocal: No.

"We stayed true to our mathematical principles," he said in a recent interview with Fast Company.

Could it be...is our bad ass Jack back? I thought I saw glimpses of him this hour, though I heard nary a "Dammit" and he was under cover as a Deutsche arms dealer wearing nerdy glasses. I feel certain Jack is intermittently thinking with his riot baton. One minute he's firmly in charge and the next he's uttering a defeated "fine." When the episode opened with Jack in his car all greasy and sweaty, I had to wonder what he was doing in there, listening to Renee over the earpiece. Grandpa Jack, are you getting too worked up? I'd hate to see Ortiz take over for you even though he has had all that experience in Fallujah. Is it just me, or could Chloe take down Cole with a glance?

As I mentioned, Jack is all greasy and sweaty as he exits his car and tells Renee he has a visual on her.