Wow! What a crazy year this has been! 2011 will surely be remembered as "The Year That Changed Everything" -- again. From how we watch television, what we're watching, how we measure viewership, how we spend our media time, it's all new. Let's just say that after 2011, we'll certainly need a breather to catch ourselves up. But I just wanted to take a couple of minutes to go over a few of my favorite things that happened in media over the past year.

Goodbye, black box, and thank you. You've served us well these past 25 years. But we're done playing the couch potato and watching just another pretty picture. We're ready to lean forward and define our own programming experience on a bigger, now connected, screen. Hello, Smart TV.