It is very nice to be home after eleven days on the road being in eleven cities including home, New York, Madrid, Zaragoza, Berlin, Oslo, Frankfurt, Denver, Laramie, San Francisco, and Berkeley. There is much more to write about the conferences I attended and the things I learned, but it will be hard to capture it all — it was one of the most intensive periods of learning for me since e-tirement began three and a half years ago. There will be some more postings about all this in the days ahead. I decided to add a new category to patrickWeb — "Conferences" — and have re-categorized a number of stories from the past few years.

• Other patrickWeb stories about conferences