Frontline's Fanning: laid-off Colorado reporters should band together across mediums.

Ideas: session on sustaining investigative journalism with NPR's Wertheimer.

Ideas: is Tom Friedman the "special guest" on July 4?: his bio is in event book but he is not on schedule.

Ideas: Journalism is now more than a product, it is a process, says author Jeff Jarvis

Ideas: on blogging and tweeting=old school journalists have embraced tweeting.

Ideas/Weymouth: "Print is still very, very strong. We have a million readers a day."

Ideas/Sullivan: blogs can have more impact than books. More repetition, more conversation, more readers.

Andrew Sullivan on blogging: "This kind of a new medium comes along once in a lifetime."

Tryangiel of Time.com: "Internet advertising sucks." "It just looks cheesey."

Calacanis of Mahalo: "We as the audience are becoming part of the journalistic process. And it is a better process."

Online opportunities: Manager of Time.com says more people reading Time than ever before.

Goolsbee: we were very close to a depression.

Ideas day 2: Wessel of WSJ on economy "things are beginning to heal."

John Holdren taking questions: said good to have Prez "who gets it and who can explain it," meaning urgency of "global climate disruption."

Holdren: China now sez on climate: when US leads, we will follow.

Climate Czar Holdren: Senate must pass cap/trade 4 C'hagen to mean anything.

Ideas Fest staff says turn off phones during talk, due to audio interference. No Tweets!

Mercedes is a sponsor of the Ideas Fest this year.

Pleasant eve in the land of ideas.

Ideas Fest registration underway. Idea: let's go hiking, it is beautiful out

The sidewalk in front of Paepcke Auditorium It is not likely to look so empty the rest of the week, that's for sure. The event starts tonight at 5 p.m. with a session called "What's the Big Idea" and goes through next Sunday. There are still tickets available for some public events. The first "bold face names" will be out on Tuesday morning, when Sandra Day O'Conner speaks at 9 a.m. about the criminal justice system and Maria Bartiromo of CNBC moderates a panel discussion at 9 a.m. about the financial system. And on it goes from there. Aspen's in fine form for the festival. Hot sun much mo bettah than steady drizzle, yes?