Via Perezhilton.com - Yes I opening admit to reading Perezhilton on a daily basis. Anyway, I am not sure what Madonna dancing to La Isla Bonita, has to do with a VCR, but totally think that more TV and web adverts should be similar.

Mmm — I think it does, perfectly too…..

Some intense storms on 20/08/2008, South East Queensland:

“Why Time Sheets are Lame …?” manages to express my sentiments on timesheets and time tracking quite well. I tend to think we track what we take the time to understand.

Yes — the foundation of all project management is time, tracking and budget. Check out Maslow’s Hierarchy of Project Manager’s Needs.

To be sung to “When I Grow Up” by Pussycat Dolls

When I grow up
I wanna have ajax
I wanna be the only star
I wanna be in rss

When I grow up
I wanna have blogs
Drive nice stylesheets
I wanna have Group Tools

When I grow up
Be on Facebook
Google knows me
Be on Yahoo

When I grow up
Drag and drop
Number one LMS when I upgrade onto the 64 servers

But be careful what you wish for
‘Cause you just might get it
Five years too late
Five years too late

I see you starring at me, LMS, I’m a trend setter, yes this is true
cause when I embed Moodle, no one can do it better
You can talk about me cause I’m a hot forum topic
I see you upgrading me upgrading me
and I know you want it

I’m heading off to Adelaide to present at the Blackboard Asia Pacific 08 conference. I’ll be presenting on work done in collaboration with Dr Shane Dawson on extracting and analyzing data from discussion forums in Blackboard Learning Systems. We had a few unique conditions: we could not install anything on the server (no server side Building Blocks or Powerlinks) and the solution had to work for both Blackboard and Vista (ie WebCT). ….So we embraced ‘constraint’ and built a GreaseMonkey script that was able to extract the relevant post-reply data from the forum thread tree. The GreaseMonkey script also exported the data into the VNA and GraphML formats, so that a free/open source social network visualisation tool could be used.

To illustrate the important of visualisation, we compare two forums. The forum threads look similar: the same number of participants and same number of posts. Visualising the structure of the forums, however produces completely different pictures of the social interaction.

Note: NetDraw was used to generate the visualisation.

Insightful post by Michael Feldstein on Blackboard NG. I am hoping to find out more at the BB Asiapac 08 conference.

It is never too late to start from scratch. It is never too late to grab market share. This should be a lesson to all - go rebuild the impossible. Google proves this with Chrome - a new webkit based browser that treats Javascript with the respect that it deserves. The “One box for everything” concept, where you can search and type urls into the same input box, leaves me wondering why this was not done a long time ago. Chrome comes with a “Stats for nerds” link, the title alone just makes it my fav browser. So far, Chrome is awesome for a 0.2 release. Can’t wait for more.

The idea of using a comic/illustration to help convey the benefits of Chrome is a useful technique - a good alternative to a storyboard/screen mockup.