New Orleans native Tom Martin was tired of Mardi Gras being depicted as a drunken, debauched bacchanal. His image of the Crescent City’s annual celebration was one of families enjoying parades, kids perched on ladders to get a good view of the colorful floats; cooking up gumbo and jambalaya on the neutral grounds (known as a roadway median strip throughout the rest of the United States); impromptu live music breaking out; and the kind of spontaneous fun that happens when you start out as a spectator, but join a line dance down Napoleon Avenue.

Attempts to explain social media vary according to the teller – much like the old story about five blind people describing an elephant based only upon whatever part of the animal they’re able to touch: Those who experience just one aspect of it lack the total vision.

Directing, encouraging and inspiring everyone to focus on the society-changing big picture that social media represents was the purpose of the second annual Social Media Week conferences, held simultaneously in five major international cities (New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London, Berlin and Sao Paulo) February 1 through 5.

Today’s post was supposed to be Technetium’s unified vote for #1 of the 2000s. Unfortunately (or fortunately) there are too many good Super Bowl commercials to limit it to just one.

We’ve decided to post some of our team’s favorites. Feel free to post comments with your own fav's.

While reviewing the best and worst Super Bowl commercials of the 2000s we found that many of the best commercials were for Bud Light or another adult beverage.

There are many great Bud Light commercials from over the years. Typically the beer commercials are some of the best. This commercial stands out as one of the best Bud Light commercials of our time.