Is it me, or is every single conference scheduled for the week of June 20? Here’s what’s up: I’ll be on a panel at the CNET Japan Innovation Conference on Monday, June 20 in Tokyo. Also on Monday is the Whole New Internet workshop of SuperNova in San Francisco. Daniel Read will be presenting in my stead. On Wednesday is the RSS Feeds and Podcasting session of WebmasterWorld in New Orleans.

I’m back on the West Coast again, at least for a few weeks. I moderated a panel at the Syndicate Conference in NYC this past Wednesday. We arrived Tuesday evening, in time to catch a fun blogger dinner at Gallagher’s Steak House in Times Square. For this particular carnivore, it was like heaven. Large slabs of cow and other mammals all over the place. Very yummy. Wednesday morning, I had a meeting with Business Week’s Stephen Baker, as described here.

As part of our ongoing Universal Inbox strategy, we launched weather forecasts in Bloglines this evening. Simply click the ‘Add’ link from your My Feeds display, and then select the ‘Weather’ link. You can add a weather forecast by city/state or zipcode. Forecasts are available from throughout the world, and like all of Bloglines, this new feature is localized in the 8 different languages that Bloglines supports.

I returned from Tokyo on Friday and am now somewhat back on West Coast time. Which is just great, as I’m hoping on a plane in a couple of hours to NYC for the Syndicate Conference, where I’m moderating a panel on Wednesday. The rest of my time in Tokyo was great. I can’t wait to return; luckily enough I’ll be back there in late June. For another post on our Tokyo trip, along with some pictures, see Jim Lanzone’s post over on the Ask Blog.

Yesterday we had the big press conference. It was a very interesting experience. We were at the auditorium at 9:30am, even though the press conference didn’t start until 1pm. We did a couple of walk throughs and met with the translators to go over our presentations. Soon enough it was time for lunch and soon after that the press conference began. I would say close to 100 reporters attended, and I think it went very well.