A native of Indiana and a graduate of Purdue University and Emory University Law School, Jon Lee Andersen, Esq. has been a practicing attorney in Atlanta for over 15 years. He focuses his practice in the advertising, marketing, promotion and intellectual property fields. His clients include advertising agencies, marketing firms, traditional retail and wholesale businesses, e-commerce companies and freelance professionals. A regular lecturer at The Portfolio Center and The Creative Circus, Andersen's work includes advice and assistance in sweepstakes, contests, promotions, unfair trade practice, labeling, testimonials and endorsements, copyright, trademark and licensing matters. His work can be found here.

Jim Osterman is founding partner of Osterman, etc, an agency search and media relations consultancy based in Atlanta. Before establishing his consultancy, he was Editor of the Southeast edition of Adweek. He is a frequent speaker to advertising and marketing organizations, as well as ad schools. He can be reached at josterman@mindspring.com and you can read his article here.

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Correspondent Britney Spears recently caught up with Jeffrey Gribble at his Northern Gribbleville Creative Ranch and asked him a few questions that seemed to be on the mind of a few folks. Here is a portion of the interview:

BS: So what are you doing these days?

jg: Creating cool stuff, thinking, recording music into the wee hours of the night, planting vegetables & flowers at 4am, swimming, planning to start shooting the film "rock stars", and buying land in the country.

BS: can you elaborate on that.

jg: no.

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About the cover & tab images:

These are small portions of the items that have inspired me over the last two weeks. My inspiration comes from a abused piece of paper in the street, a drawing from a child or an ant crawling on my sidewalk with a huge moth wing in it's mouth. My mission is to inspire others every day. -jg!