Matt Buck's Hack Cartoons

The times they-are-a-changing. Google's ad revenues in the UK exceed ITV's. I should also say one of my employers, Channel 4, are 25 this week and there is a nice link to a lot of interesting logo idents from the past quarter century, among other things, here. I can't believe it's 25 years!

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Google recently signed business deals with four major providers of information to newspapers all around the globe.

This has, potentially, very major implications for all existing print media. The news gathered at source does not have to go through the existing media structures to get to market (the readers). Why would anyone bother to read a paper when you can get the unfiltered content direct from your contact with a search engine?

Hat-tip to Matthew Ingram who writes about it here