While we are discussing evil foreign media owners and all the virtues of national media ownership here in our small corner of the world, British newspapers improve their strategies for reaching a bigger, worldwide audience. Both The Times and The Guardian are eyeing the US market, but the implications of Guardian's announcement that they will publish articles online before print are staggering (if not exactly new, many newspapers already do this).

A former lecturer of mine from City university takes a closer look at the practical implications for newsrooms here. It's yet another example of how the internet is changing things and has a million important implications: for one, to quote a close aide to Rumsfeld: "there are no time zones anymore". In 2003 he told a seminar I was attending in DC about the propaganda problems in Iraq and how the Internet "made it very difficult to segregate messages for different groups" – alluding to how the minute something is said in Washington, London or Baghdad it is online for everyone to read wherever you are in the world. A brave new world indeed.