Jake here, with a bunch of news to report.

For one,Newsarama hasa review of the Book 3, Volume 3 DVD.  Note: Does contain spoilers on episode 312-315.   Here is a snippet from one of the responses, though, that I found insightful:

"You know it's funny how people act like this is a new thing, but Nick has done this A LOT of time to other shows...best I can say is All Grown Up, the sequel series to Rugrats, the held off the last half dozen of episodes they had made for like YEARS and when they FINALLY aird them, they were at 6:30 AM! for a few weeks. And they STILL have a few unaired eps to show

Also i think another reason behind this is because they fear how Avatar's outshinned Spongebob to the point where Avatar ENDED Squarepants consecutive winning of "Best animated series" Kids Choice award, I mean look back at it, theyu reduced it to one of hte "Ticker Tape" reveals, they didn't even bother to give it a live annoucement! Spongebob IS loosing momentum and I think they wan tto continue the trend that they feel,m that cartoons are for KIDS! And Avatar hardly does that! I mean it's this reasaon, rumors state, that lead to the demise of Danny Phantom, because the audience watching it were TEENS and COLLEGE students! NOT Kids! So, yeah that COULD be a reason if you ask me"

Next, we have some news on at least one member of the Avatar staff's future.  Head Writer Aaron Ehasz is reportedly teaming up with "The SImpsons'" executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein on a new Nickelodeon cartoon:

"It’s also reported that Oakely and Weinstein are collaborating with Avatar: The Last Airbender writer and co-exec producer Aaron Ehasz on an animated Nickelodeon project titled Worst Class Ever. The proposed series takes place at a middle school and will feature comedian Patton Oswald (Ratatouille) in the lead voice role. Oakley and Weinstein will also provide voices, and characters were designed by Oakley."

One last thing, IGN is doing an Avatar-in-review-type thing and is reviewing each of the episodes, once a week.  Their latest review is of "The Fortuneteller" and interestingly enough, the reviewer gave it lower marks than "The Great Divide." O_o  EDIT: The latest review is actually for "The Deserter."

Thanks for Ninja Zutara in chat for these links! 

Dylan here. The 37th "From the Spirit World" Podcast is up! You can listen on iTunes or in the podcast page. We cover every single scene in the trailer in this podcast and talk about it for more than 80 minutes! 

Jake here, and here it is!  Between commercials for "The Mighty Bee" (yes I sat through "The Mighty Bee" for you, so bee happy - yeah that was lame) Nick showed a commercial for new episodes in July.  Basically it was just a shorter version of the NYCC trailer with some new voice overs.

Check it out here: http://dongbufeng.net/videos/newepisodesjuly.wmv.  It's not the best quality, but hey its something.  Beats watching Nick all day to see when they'll show it again.  And all I gotta say is - thank God for DVR!

Jake here, and the site maintainence last night went well and is complete.  We've upgraded the main site to the latest version of Mambo, 4.5.3.

Also we have some exciting news this afternoon - there are many valid reports out there saying Nick is airing commercials for Avatar's July.  Advertising 3 months in advance - even one commercial - is a very good sign.  I'm gonna sit through a Spongebob marathon here and have my webcam and DVR ready, so I will upload and post the commercial after it airs, if it airs again.  If you find a copy of the commercial which has not yet been deleted from Youtube, email me the link at ASAP!  Thanks.