The Information Age

As Super Bowl XLVII vastly approaches, companies are lining up to buy ad slots for commercials. Anheuser-Busch InBev, Coca-Cola, Audi, Best Buy and many other major brands are at the top of the list of companies who have purchased ad time. Adverting Age has released the list. The list includes the "buy" (length of the time slot), the "creative" (the treatment or core concept of the ad) and the agency responsible for delivering the visual.

Brad Bird gives insight into what drives innovation at Pixar. He speaks about past projects, team morale, and taking frustrated team members and molding them into a cohesive unit. He also discourages creatives from making products for groups of people if the creator is not included in that group that it's being made for. Bird also mentioned that while at Pixar, Steve Jobs created a floor model that included a bathroom in the middle of the atrium. Something as small as the location of a bathroom in the center of the building, ensured that interaction among workers would take place.

Kerrin Sheldon, cofounder of Humanity.TV is a strong advocate for personalizing and defining success on your own terms. He describes success as the freedom to pursue and to do anything that you love, with the help of an encouraging support system. And when you have that chance at success on your terms, through it all, remain thankful.

Phillip Nappi, owner of "Peter Nappi" (http://peternappi.com/), finds out through researching his family roots that his paternal grandfather shared his interest in creating high end Italian shoes and boots. As a child, he'd lost all contact with his father's family. Having already started the luxury shoemaking business, this story illustrates that some things are truly "in our blood".