OK, first off, in response to those who have called and e-mailed wondering if our blog software is broken or what ... nope. We just haven't posted since November 17. That's the longest Media Orchard has gone without a post in well over a year, but it's been pretty much unavoidable.

How come? Well, have you read the Peanut Butter Manifesto?

Basically, we have a lot of client work, and we also started Spin Thicket, so to avoid spreading ourselves too thin a la Yahoo (Cathy's threatening to leak an internal Idea Grove memo), something had to give.

Unfortunately, that's been Media Orchard.

We plan to start updating Media Orchard again regularly soon, and should be able to get back up to our multiple-post-per-day pace sometime after the first of the year. That's our goal, anyhow...

In the meantime, for your MO fix, we offer two options:

1. Listen to "Media Orchard Live," our new live podcast. We're aiming to do a show every two weeks, and tonight we're excited to be interviewing PR doyen (had to use that word) Steve Rubel. So please tune in.

2. Become part of Spin Thicket. We believe in Spin Thicket and think it can be a great, fun resource for marketers and media types; so please, get involved. We plan to add some cool new community features once the traffic gets to the right level. So c'mon -- sign up and start posting!

See you in the funny papers.