ABC moves into vodcasting

In addition to their new jtv service, the ABC is expanding their new media services to incorporate vodcasting, which is basically podcasting except it deals with both video and audio data.

But will the vodcast be as popular as we all hope? `No` said Rupert Murdoch in an interview with Newsweek earlier this year:

"[H]ow many people really want to get video on a tiny screen when they already have TiVo or a similar service from their cable company or DirecTV? How many will want to pay $1.99 on Monday morning if they missed "Desperate Housewives" the night before? What's been announced so far with iPod and Disney and NBC is very small-time at the moment."

Food for thought ... after all, he is a bloody savvy guy when it comes to new media technologies. In the same interview he discussed the runaway success of News Corp's online social networking site MySpace.com:

"We had no idea that between then and now the thing would have doubled in size. We now have 50 million registered users. We are very happy with it."

Murdoch discussed the success of MySpace again for this month's -|hang on a minute as I check the Wired web site ... oh|- last month's issue of Wired magazine. I'm yet to read the article, but it will be interesting to see how far MySpace has come since News Corp. bought it a year ago.

I'll get back on that one.

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Photo: Wired. [how can one face have so many contours ...? How does he shave?]