I arrived in Toronto yesterday for the annual SLA conference. Most of my blog entries this week will be at the InfoToday official blog for the conference. It’s a surreal experience to be in Paris on Friday, home on Saturday, and in Toronto on Sunday. Three days, three different countries.

We wrapped up the WebSearch Academy conference last Thursday. Speakers were Karen Blakeman, Ran Hock, Greg Notess, and me. I think the 30 attendees (from 13 countries!) throoughly enjoyed the two days, although they looked a bit tired by the end. So were the speakers! TWe covered a lot in that time frame. The first day we devoted an hour and a half to blogs and RSS. Here’s the conference success story. The next morning one of the attendees walked in and announced she’d started a blog the night before, putting it together in her hotel room. Too cool! My biggest problem was demonstrating Blogger not only with a French keyboard (forget touch typing) and a French interface to Blogger. I know how to get to the Google English language interface when I’m in another country, but couldn’t figure out how to get Blogger to display in English. Anybody know?