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Valleywag picked up on an article in Fast Company in which CPB’s Microsoft AE Rob Reilly explains-away the agency’s seeming conflict of interest in using Macs…while working on a $300 million client that wants to smash Apple into sauce, or cider, or some other derivative.

“It’s not a matter of forcing people. It’s getting them to want to use it. If you can’t, you’re not going to do great advertising,” he said.

As far as we’re concerned, that’s how you do it. CPB was already in motion when Microsoft came along. But rather than go into freak out mode, they give their employees the choice of changing. Bear in mind, in that article, the point is made that Macs basically made the company what it was.

We have to hand it to CPB on this. Compared to Enfatico (remember how they bought a bunch of Dell screens and keyboards when Michael Dell stopped by), CPB’s management of the “what do we do” situation feels logical, natural, and non-reactionary. Enfatico on the other hand, should have built their Austin agency with Dell equipment, and given people the option of using a Mac.

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Ah, inefficiency at it’s finest.

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Today, Obama ran an ad in which the fact that McCain doesn’t know how many houses he owns indicates he is out of touch with reality…after all, I only have one “house” (read: apt), and I never forget that.

Notice the quotes in this ad from…yesterday. And the piece is already up on YouTube courtesy Barack Obama’s crew. Apparently, BBC America is running a special on the ability of ads like this to be produced in a short time period, yet have such a compound effect on media.

This ad was the subject of a pretty much all the cable and network news shows today &#151 and during a speech, Obama made mention of the “how many houses do you have?” situation.

Nonetheless &#151 we wonder how Obama thinks this will help him in the future. Is it better to pretend like things are OK so people don’t freak out or should we be facing the matter and admitting something’s wrong? Obama seems to point toward the latter &#151 whereas McCain wants to keep the American public calm. We’re not sure which response is better (though we have our notions), but Obama has a point in saying a person should know how many houses they own.

Furthermore, McCain said today that a person who is rich makes $5 million dollars. Ouch. All in all, it was a good day for Sen. Obama. We’re taking the “don’t talk about sex, religion and politics” stance on this one. Check out the spot, it’s worth watching.

BBC America will be running a special on the issue tonight, specifically pertaining to the power of the internet. Check it out.

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