Paul Hagon

  • Trove WordPress plugin

    One of the fantastic resources in Trove is the digitised newspaper collection. We’ve seen people using the newspapers for research & republishing their findings on their blogs. There’s a couple of issues with this: If the text that is copied hasn’t been corrected, if it ever gets updated in Trove it won’t get updated on…

  • i

    Last year in Portugal I came across an amazing newspaper called “i” (short for informação). It’s the most beautifully designed newspaper. It was only when I got home that I found out it had been named the best designed newspaper in the world. The hot topic, particularly in tech sections of newspapers is tomorrow’s expected announcement…

  • Reflections on 2011

    As you can see from my site, 2011 was a year that I didn’t do very much writing. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to write about, I just didn’t get around to finishing up the posts & they stayed in drafts (hence this being posted in February – better late than never). This…

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  • Puttin’ on the writs

    This year we had a bit of fun at the National Library of Australia’s Christmas party with our own little take on copyright law. Thanks to Dereta for all her hard choreography work. It was great fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVosHcun6Uw&rel=0