I'll be covering Search Engine Strategies this week in New York; I hope any readers of Webmetricsguru.com who are at the conference come up and say hello - I'd love to chat.

Anyway, today must have been one of the busiest days in my life - meeting and speaking with many people including Nathan Freitas, who runs Cruxy.com, for lunch as well as speaking with Amy Fullwiler of Mascord.com (Amy also joined the Web Analytics Association and voted for me - I'm so grateful for the support I've received from friends, clients and IBM - who allowed all the analysts on our metrics team to join to vote for me).

Meanwhile, I spoke with Mike Raffensperger at Zoom-In and signed a contract - I'll be writing for Zoom-In this week and hope to be doing so on a regular basis.

Also spoke with Jeff Zaretsky at www.kickapps.com who I'll meet for lunch in a couple of weeks and this evening I spent 4 hours in a FANTASTIC Second Life Immersion Training given by Dimitri Darras and Boris Kizelshteyn at Combined Story, a Second Life design firm.  I'll write up the Second Life training in another blog post in a couple of days.  Meanwhile - it was close to 9 PM when I was done and I still needed to swing by my office at IBM.  By the time I got home it was almost 11 PM.

And yesterday, I painting a still life which, I feel, represents a synthesis of my Web Analytics, Art and Blogging, called Sunday Still Life with three Clay Pots (see below), which reminded me of some of Delacroix's pastel sketches done around 1849.  To me, my painting is the synthesis of all that I'm doing - it's the way I tie it all together - and I often get insights as I paint.

I should have a lot of stuff to post about for the rest of the week with Search Engine Strategies taking place.