Last week was exhausting. I was in New York for WebSearch University, which was exciting and stimulating. I don’t think we’ve ever had such an international audience for WSU. Knowing that people listening to you are from Norway, Denmark, Armenia, and Egypt makes you rethink how you phrase some of your remarks to make them less North America-centric. I don’t know that we always succeeded at that, but we tried.

Chris Sherman talked about search engines “hitting the wall” and contrasted Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. One of his examples was travel search engines. Orbitz is 1.0; Kayak and Mobissimo are 2.0. I hadn’t tried his 2.0 sites, but after his talk, I did. Honestly, for international travel (I’m trying to book a flight to Oslo for IFLA), I don’t see a huge difference. Maybe I’m missing something. Wouldn’t be the first time. Nor the last.

Already have the flight booked for Paris next week. I’m speaking at WebSearch Academy in conjunction with i-expo. It’s going to be great.