Murdoch “salutes the bloggers”
Tuesday, March 14th, 2006Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, has again saluted the rise of blogging (myspace), self-produced (youtube) and on-demand (iTunes) media consumption.
“It is difficult, indeed dangerous, to underestimate the huge changes this revolution will bring or the power of developing technologies to build and destroy - not just companies but whole countries.”
Last weekend, I was in the in the Apple store in San Francisco. It was hard to get the attention of a sales assistant. There was no particular sale on, but what I saw was a feeding frenzy. People were particularly excited by the video iPod.