Category: Libraries

  • DigitalNZ location search

    A mapping application I’ve built to expose content from DigitalNZ

  • How libraries can learn from Twitter

    This morning an interesting Tweet arrived on a subject that I’ve been thinking about quite a lot lately: there seem to be more people using twitter apps than twitter web. What is twitter doing wrong? @katykat In April 2008, ReadWriteWeb carried out a study How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients that showed…

  • New York then and now

    I’ve been playing around with yet another Flickr Commons then and now project, this time using the images of New York from 1935-1938 from the New York Public Library.  The process for this has been a little bit different to the previous then and now demonstrations.  The images that have been posted don’t have any…

  • Thriller

    I recently had a bit of fun at the National Library of Australia’s Christmas party playing Michael Jackson. It was so much fun.

  • New Zealand then and now

    On November 27 the National Library of New Zealand became the sixteenth institution to join The Commons.  In what was perfect timing, within days Google launched their streetview service for New Zealand.  Of course I’ve modified my then and now mashup to include the images on Flickr from the National Library of New Zealand.  They’ve…