Filed under: Video, Celebrities, Documentary, Reality-Free "B as in bandits. Who rob. And what do they rob you of? Logs. A blog is something that's contagious. It festers here and it eats away at the planet." That's Amy Sedaris, explaining what blogs are. She's part of the new, six-part PBS document...

Hi, I’m AJ and I am on the @veryGreenTeam ! Other teams (aka the losers): @blueteam @goldteam @whiteteam @redteam @yellowteam @plaidteam @purpleteam @FF1CAteam Let the color wars begin!...

(Unedited running notes from the TED2008 conference in Monterey, California. Session twelve - closing session.) The session opens with the projection of will.i.am's "Yes We Can" viral video based on Barack Obama's speech. The two producers are in the audience. The video has been seen milli...

Photo: Michael Brands/Aspen Institute Friday at TED@Aspen, we hosted live Talks from Walter Isaacson, the head of the Aspen institute, and the wonderful Ze Frank. Between TED sessions via satellite, we heard from David Gallo and William Lange of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Joy Mountfor...

It's been almost three months since I began writing this post, which was to commemorate the third blogiversary here @ The Big Ticket (previous years' posts: 2005 & 2006), but the ensuing craziness that has come with moving into a new apartment this month (COUGARS!) & the delay in getting proper inte...