Happy holidays from Amman

• Transparent Terry
• Buy The Books

• Confidently Facing Chaos
  03/28/2013
• How Brands Can Behave as People (And Why They Should)
  03/7/2013
• We’re All Shilling For Something
  02/17/2013
• Redefining Community
  01/16/2013
• Following the BIG Trends
  12/27/2012
• The Web is Not An “Advertising” Medium
  12/18/2012
• Deconstructing the path to truth
  10/8/2012
• When Advertising Enters the Stream
  8/12/2012
• The Postmodern Journalist
  7/30/2012
• Social Media’s Antisocial Behavior
  7/5/2012
• Henry Blodget is Right: TV is in Trouble
  6/15/2012
• The User Annoyance Issue
  5/28/2012
• Working Without A Stage
  3/5/2012
• 2012: Finding Our Edges
  12/16/2011
• Social TV and Second Screens: To What End?
  12/5/2011
• Think “Landing Pages,” Not Websites
  11/11/2011
• Playing Defense When Offense is Required
  10/1/2011
• When Closure is Contrived
  9/28/2011
• The Future is Now (Really!)
  9/14/2011
• The Emerging Impotency of Mass Marketing
  6/6/2011
• Pity the Poor Anchor
  4/15/2011
• Preparing for Unbundled Television
  3/20/2011
• The Web Is Our Friend
  2/23/2011
• 2011: Winter Begins
  12/14/2010
• News is Not a Story
  12/14/2010
• Online Advertising’s Missing Link
  11/14/2010
• Media’s Real Doomsday Scenario
  9/20/2010
• Equilibrium’s Undoing
  9/2/2010
• The Two Stages of Journalism
  8/29/2010
• The Internet Weakens Authority
  7/12/2010
• Pureplays and the 50% Threshold
  7/08/2010
• The Evolving User Paradigm
  6/20/2010
• Privacy Disrupted
  6/13/2010
• The Chaotic Nature of Change
  5/13/2010
• The Trouble With Twitter
  4/26/2010
• Social Media Guidelines
  3/12/2010
• The New News Curator
  2/14/2010
• The Hidden Disruption
  1/11/2010
• The Four Opportunities of 2010
  12/21/2009
• Chasing “The” Truth
  12/12/2009
• The Order of the Web
  8/09/2009
• The Chaotic New Order
  8/07/2009
• Underestimating the Audience
  6/12/2009
• The Web’s Widening Stream
  5/22/2009
• Is the Mainstream Winning?
  4/27/2009
• Using Free to Sell Paid
  3/30/2009
• We Don’t Need No Stage!
  2/23/2009
• Advertising Loses Its Balance
  2/17/2009
• Protecting the Stage
  2/2/2009
• 2009: The Great Beginning
  12/15/2008
• Embracing the Disruption
  12/1/2008
• The First Law of Social Media
  11/28/2008
• Journalism’s New Values
  11/14/2008
• The Back End’s the Thing
  11/10/2008
• Your Personal Brand
  10/06/2008
• Personal Walled Gardens
  09/20/2008
• Failure at the Top
  07/15/2008
• The Cost of Interaction
  05/29/2008
• A Reasonable View of Tomorrow
  04/25/2008
• The Problem With Web Advertising
  04/20/2008
• It’s Always About the Money
  03/16/2008
• The Public Journal
  01/29/2008
• It’s Not the Same Game
  01/08/2008
• 2008: Embracing the (Real) Web
  12/28/2007
• The Ultimate Question
  12/03/2007
• News is a Process, Not a Finished Product
  11/09/2007
• Postmodernism’s Most Important Gift
  10/30/2007
• Google Lifts Only Google
  10/08/2007
• Creating Spectrum Within Spectrum
  9/20/2007
• Understanding the Yahoo! Consortium
  8/28/2007
• News as a Commodity
  8/13/2007
• The Future is Niche Media
  7/02/2007
• To Brand or Not to Brand
  4/24/2007
• Links, the Currency of The Machine
  3/19/2007
• Voyeurism: Journalism’s 21^st Century Crisis
  2/26/2007
• The Local Web
  1/22/2007
• 2007: The Battle for Local Supremacy
  12/13/2006
• Right Brain Renaissance
  11/09/2006
• Local Television’s Perfect Storm
  9/18/2006
• The Changing Face(s) of Local News
  8/23/2006
• The Transparency Marketplace
  8/7/2006
• Selling Against Ourselves
  6/27/2006
• The On-Demand Trap
  5/24/2006
• The Real Threat to Local Broadcasters
  4/24/2006
• 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed Me
  4/16/2006
• Investing in a Local Future
  3/27/2006
• New Metrics and Principles
  3/5/2006
• The Ammunition Business
  2/2/2006
• The Economy of Unbundled Advertising
  1/3/2006
• The Unbundled Awakening
  12/22/2005
• Trusting the Audience and the Readers
  11/28/2005
• The Unbundled Newsroom
  11/9/2005
• The Remarkable Opportunities of Unbundled Media
  11/1/2005
• The Jewel of the Elites
  10/3/2005
• The Matter of “Getting It”
  09/15/2005
• The Elevation of Experience
  07/05/2005
• Chaos at the Door
  06/22/2005
• Stations Must Embrace Personal Tools
  05/30/2005
• A Wolf in Aggregator Clothing
  05/20/2005
• The Web’s Paradox of Power
  04/6/2005
• The Convergence Advertising Trap
  03/10/2005
• The Devaluation of Information
  02/22/2005
• Searching for the Bottom
  02/15/2005
• Re-thinking News Promos
  01/26/2005
• Convention versus the Internet
  01/22/2005
• 2005: A Year of Trouble for Broadcasters
  12/29/2004
• A Broadcaster’s Christmas Carol
  12/13/2004
• Overcoming Formula Addiction
  11/15/2004
• When Supply Exceeds Demand
  09/27/2004
• Beyond Portal Websites
  09/07/2004
• Local TV’s New Deadlines
  08/05/2004
• The Power of Attraction
  08/02/2004
• The Value of Local Search
  07/20/2004
• Beyond the World Wide Web
  07/02/2004
• Of Liberals and Networks
  06/13/2004
• The Assumption of Trust
  05/27/2004
• The Busine$$ of RSS
  05/21/2004
• News As A Sporting Event
  04/27/2004
• The Genius of OhmyNews!
  04/15/2004
• The New Public Relations
  03/24/2004
• TV’s Measurement Conundrum
  03/12/2004
• The Demographic Candle
  02/17/2004
• The Unobvious Result of the Web
  02/03/2004
• The Future is Multimedia
  01/26/2004
• News Is A Conversation
  01/13/2004
• Beyond RSS Aggregators
  12/31/2003
• 2004: Time For Action
  12/17/2003
• Argument Versus Objectivity
  12/05/2003
• Chaos in the Feedback Loop
  11/25/2003
• TV’s Four New Media Mistakes
  11/17/2003
• The Live Coverage Revolution
  11/07/2003
• News Anchors: An Endangered Species
  10/30/2003
• The Challenge of Advertising
  10/22/2003
• The Defensive Newsroom
  10/15/2003
• Participatory Journalism
  10/10/2003
• Technology Is Not The Enemy
  9/29/2003
• Reinventing News for the 21^st Century
  9/24/2003
• The Rise of the Independent Video Journalist
  9/1/2003
• The case for MTV
  8/11/2003
• TV Viewers and Internet Users Are Different
  7/18/2003
• Is TV News Giving Away The Future?
  5/1/2003
• A Postmodern Wake-up Call
  12/14/2002
• The Lizard on America’s Shoulder
  9/1/1998

• Lisa Lambden
  8/09/2005
• Brian McLaren
  5/24/2005
• Tom Kennedy
  3/22/2005
• M.D. Smith IV
  2/25/2005
• Ed Cone
  12/27/2004
• Peggy Phillip
  08/25/2004
• Tim Hanlon
  06/21/2004
• James Marsh
  04/01/2004

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