Google aim to digitize newspaper archives

Google are aiming to digitize every amount of information out there and make it searchable it seems (maybe one day even the notebooks my Mum has kept from the 1970s detailing how much food cost then). The latest step is to digitize the archives of newspapers which is truly going to be a massive task. There are already some of these archives available such as the Times Digital Archive which i find very fascinating. Though i'd really love to see some local newspapers such as the (Birmingham) Evening Mail and Sutton Coldfield News archives, i suspect these might not be in the Google search for a few years...

Viewing Ancient Rome in Google Earth

You can now view Ancient Rome using Google Earth, or rather a virtual representation. 320CE was a little too early for photography, satellites and banks of servers. This, however, makes me think that it would be rather cool to be able to view an area in GE (or elsewhere) as it changed over time, maybe by adjusting a slider. Of course the amount of imagery you would require would be vast.

One could see how a site (such as the university) had changed over time. Such as from this...



To this...



...and to this.