Helen Morgan - Snapperup of unconsidered trifles

Images, history and invention – that’s the title of an event coming up on Monday 14 July at the National Library of Australia in Canberra, and I have been invited to speak at it in my capacity as a Flickr photographer, archivist and contributor to Picture Australia.
“Join image makers and picture curators in conversation on [...]

The Evangelists of Empire online journal, part of the History Conference and Seminar series from the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne (deep breath, still with me?) was launched today. I worked on it with my colleagues at the eScholarship Research Centre, James Williams and Eve Young, and the lovely editors from [...]

My eight month old daughter searched for AzzxsfdazZ on Google today, but sadly, her search did not match any documents. This was a disappointing first experience of the wonders of the Web.
I think we will go back to reading Where are the Green Sheep? and The Elephant and the Bad Baby.

I’m not a fan of Facebook. I think it’s a horcrux. It chews up way too much bandwidth and is, ergo, bad for the environment (although I’ve enjoyed a quiet game of Scrabulous with friends every now and then).
However, within the last week the Mauritius Government (apparently) directed Mauritian ISPs to block local access to [...]