Paul Hagon

  • Social networks and the Libraries Australia forum

    On October the 23rd Libraries Australia is holding its annual forum at the Powerhouse Museum.  I’ve decided to use the event as a practical introduction to many staff members of the National Library on how social networks can be used to enhance an event. I’m going up there with my laptop and will sit in…

  • Webjam 8 presentation

    A video of the presentation I gave at Webjam 8 has been posted.  Thanks again to Lachlan for organising such a fantastic night.

  • State Library of New South Wales Flickr mashup

    The State Library of New South Wales have joined Flickr commons, which means that with one small change to my code, I can reproduce my “then and now” mashup for their collection.  There isn’t a great deal of photos that have been geo-tagged as yet, but that’s the beauty of this – anyone can go…

  • Powerhouse street view mashup

    Recently I’ve been thinking of more and more ways that museums and libraries can expose their collections via other methods besides typing a search term into a search box – yawn… Like most Australians I’ve been playing around with the street view data Google have added in for Australia cities and it got me thinking,…

  • Tate Liverpool iPhone tours

    With the recent introduction (for many countries) of Apple’s iPhone, many museums and galleries have been looking at ways they can use the web browser and multimedia player capabilities of the device to enhance the content they deliver.