“Just Dance” by Lady Gaga has hit no 1, on Aus iTunes. Just Awesome news - I predicted this, but was kinda worried when “So What” by Pink came out of nowhere to claim no 1 last week.

The new jQuery site design with the rock star slogan caused uproar and now its gone. If you missed the fuss, Ajaxian has a screengrab. I don’t get the fuss! I don’t get why the rock star banner was removed! My only comment is that I am not a Rock Star Javascript programmer, yeah really, I am a Popstar programmer. …and Popstars while controversial don’t compromise their art. The designer should just have quoted Pink:

So so what?
I’m still a rock star
I got my rock moves
And i don’t need you
And guess what
I’m having more fun

oh wow - Madonna totally rocks. I wish I could have gone to the concert in person, but thanks to cool fans who recorded and put their movies up on YouTube, I can watch entire songs just a few days after.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sticky%20%26%20Sweet%20Tour&uploaded=w

..And yes, Madonna is still awesome and can still use controversy to get herself on the news.

Dipity is an amazing social timeline tool. I’m not gonna say too much - the timelines can speak for themselves.
My personal blog timeline:

TimeTube of Lady Gaga videos on YouTube

Archaeologist - Timeline of Digg

Embed Dipity within your LMS now!

Quite cool to find, a book written by me (Pinnacle Studio 9 Ignite!), scanned and put online by Google Book Search….

Other books I’ve written are also available in limited preview from Google Book Search…

"Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments", is the best paper I have read on Learning Design by far!

Essentially, Learning Environment Design is the missing link. I agree. Tools within the LMS are rudimentary and not generally exposed to Students as creators. The paper introduces the Mash-UP Personal Learning Environment (MUPPLE) system and a Learner Interaction Scripting Language (LISL) which works as a Domain Specific Language (DSL) behind the scenes. LISL is powerful, making it easy to combine content and activities which can then be deployed, shared and adapted (evolved). LISL just needs a GUI addon to be super intuitive and adaptable.

OK so now I think I have worked on something similar. A tool called Interactive Media Enhanced Teaching (IMET) that was available in QUT’s inhouse built OLT system. The M in IMET had a different meaning depending on who you spoke to - M for Media or Multimedia and now I’m thinking M could actually have stood for Mashup. A paper entitled “Putting the ‘me’ into media: Exploring different strategies to embed the integration of streaming media with cognitive tools, into learning activities” was presented at the OLT 2003 conference. I’m not an author of the paper, but I was the developer of IMET. I did present a Flex powered version at Ausweb 06.

Lady Gaga was on TRL, MTV. Kinda funny that she described Madonna with the same words that she would use to describe herself - “Who really can mess with Madonna? Nobody … and her stage and her videos are always amazing and the visuals, its about more than just the music, its about the fashion, its about the whole package.” A cool tribute coming on M’s bday.

Check out the vid at 4:00 mins:

I want a duet between Madonna and Lady Gaga, NOW.

Aparently the real 7 year old singer was not cute enough. What is the world coming to? These are 7 year old kids - both look cute!!!!

You know you are not programming complex algorithms when you only need to use i as an iteration variable. What ever happened to j and k? At uni when doing engineering I used i, j and k as I usually had to deal with multiple levels of recursion. For many years, I have only needed to use i. A sure sign that I mainly just need to retrieve stuff from a database, allow ppl to edit it and then insert it back into the database.

iTunes has Give It 2 Me Remixes - EP. Remixes are sooooo good. I have missed official Madonna remixes and was super amazed to find this EP. Now, I must ask why a set of remixes is called an EP? I seem to think that an EP should have approx 4 - 6 different songs, not just 4 - 6 remixes of the same song. The Lady Gaga Just Dance EP was also just 4 remixes of the same song.