While some of us hold down the fort in frigid Soho as we put the finishing touches on our Circus website, our founder, Laurel, is busy working the air-conditioned room at TED in lovely Monterey. For the time being, she's traded in the usual media party suspects for the likes of Al Gore, Isaac Mizrahi, Amy Tan, and Dave Eggers.

Rumor has it that right this very minute Laurel's unleashing her considerable charms (and a feather-boa lasso) on a couple of TEDsters as our final Mediabistro Circus presenters.

Stay tuned. This is going to be good.