Tumblr blog of the day (if not the year so far): Jim'll Paint It. A man, presumably Jim, possibly with a lot of time on his hands, takes commissions for original artworks and posts several a day created using Microsoft Paint.Jim has an eye for the bizarre - and more detail than Paint should allow. Examples: "Dear Jim, please paint me a Tyrannosaurus Rex playing Connect 4 with Heston Blumenthal on a lake of fire whilst a Care Bear watches them lustfully" and "Please paint me Jimi Hendrix explaining to an owl on his shoulder what a stick of chalk …

An online TV brand creation from 5 Minute Network has launched in Glasgow, offering six on demand affinity group-based channels. The video platform for TV Tapas was built from scratch by the company's own developers and provides content in five-minute bite sized chunks based on affinity group demographics. Creative director, Paul Hineman, a BAFTA award-winning television director, believes there is a gap in the market for high quality, accredited content that advertisers can get on board with.

Mobile users share 3.8 million news articles every single week, new readings show. A survey from mobile network Three reveals that smartphone users now share a staggering 67 million items per week, with news stories, personal photos, funny videos and special offers among the most popular items. Researchers found that Monday 2:36pm is the time people are most likely to engage in sharing as they attempt to reconnect with friends they saw over the weekend just passed.

Google has won a copyright battle in Europe after Germany approved a watered-down version of the copyright bill which would make search engines like Google provide excerpts of newspaper articles without paying any charge. The new law will allow Google and other search engines to publish small bits of text from news stories in search results. Google's victory comes after persistent lobbying that included a campaign against proposed German copyright law.

The research, which included over 2,600 journalists from France, the UK, America and Germany, has formed the basis of a white paper entitled "The Likes, Loathes and Loves of Journalists", including statistics on the media, search and PR sectors. Other findings included 82% of UK national media journalists and 91% of German national media journalists researched using Wikipedia, while 15% of journalists across France, Germany and America used Facebook when researching company information.

BBC iPlayer is closing on a staggering 300m programme views after a record-breaking January, when an episode of David Attenborough's Africa racked up more than 2 million requests. After a record-breaking Christmas period, the BBC's catch-including children's up TV service followed that up with 272 million requests for TV and radio programming in January 2013, the highest ever monthly figure. The first episode of David Attenborough's new series Africa led the way on TV requests, with 2.3 million, and the show's second instalment also pulled in 1.7 million requests.

Founded in 2004 by Paul Rapacioli, an ex-director of the employment agency reed.co.uk, and James Savage, a former radio journalist and PR consultant, the English-language news source has been launched in several other European countries - Germany, Norway, Switzerland and France. Now Rapacioli and Savage are extending their European coverage still further by launching in Spain this week and Italy next month.

The amount of UK internet users has doubled in the past six years. A report reveals that about 33 million adults used internet daily during 2012, a rise from 16 million users in 2006. According to the office for national statistics, internet usage for telephone or video calls rose faster than expected, with 32% of adults using the for this purpose. The number of adults using the internet daily in 2012 was four times the 8% rate projected in 2007.

Bradley Manning, the former U.S. army private who is being tried by a military court for leaking classified documents after spending almost three years in jail, admitted on Thursday that he gave information - including a video of an attack by U.S. forces on civilians in Iraq - to WikiLeaks. But Manning also provided some details about his leaking of documents that reinforce why having an independent quasi-media entity like WikiLeaks is important: he says he tried to provide the same information to traditional news outlets, including both the New York Times and the Washington Post, but was ignored.

It's a long-running question that got a little more attention last week following the news that The Guardian had avoided industrial action from its journalists by promising not to make 68 compulsory redundancies, as previously planned. Welcoming the deal, NUJ deputy general secretary Barry Fitzpatrick said: "It is essential that the transition to a subscription-model, coupled with an affordable print version, is based on the highest standards of journalism." The subscription-model part of the online statement was hurriedly corrected to "the digital" and both the publisher and union say it was simply a mistake.