Rupert Murdoch is who we will, God willing, be one day. He is everything that keeps people young. If he would have stuck entirely with the newspaper business years ago, there is a good chance he would have faded away. News Corp has now become a huge empire under his direction.
He has his finger on the pulse of the new media generation. There is a lesson learned here. I know there are quite a few that have embraced the internet and everything digital. There are those that will not, and for that, I will say just look at Mr. Murdoch. Fearing what you don’t understand is natural. I say, “just dive right in“, the water is quite fine.
The man is 76 years young. The article is quite long, but it’s newspaper. A great Sunday read for anyone who think they are too old to accomplish something in the online universe. Anything for that matter. He could have easily retired years ago, sailed a boat in the south Pacific, traveled the world, done whatever he wanted. He could have easily faded away into obscurity.
Mr. Murdoch chose not to do any of the above. Why you ask? Because it’s better to be alive then to go off and just die. There is a real lesson learned here, and I hope you all take the time to read all 4 pages. Once you lose your grip on the pulse of the new generation, you lose on life.
By every measure, he appears to believe he has plenty of time to get exactly what he wants. As he wrapped up the conference in Monterey last Sunday, he looked out at his employees and said: “You all think I’m too old.” Pausing for a beat, he added: “I think you’re too old.”
No, Mr. Murdoch, Rex Dixon thinks you are living life to the fullest. You may or may not finalize a deal with Dow Jones & Company, but if that falls through, you probably will just smile and buy up the next MySpace. Maybe he will devour Obvious or twitter. That folks is why he is who he is.
If I had his money, or wanted to grab something now that will generate more useful things for his empire, it would be twitter. The time is now, before everyone (mainstream advertisers) figure out what a powerful tool twitter can be. I saw a quick blurb on the use of twitterment; people are finally catching up. Waking up is more like it.
Technically Speaking, you lose site on the youth, you end up withering away into obscurity. For my musician enabled readers, here is one that I know you all know, “If it’s too loud, you’re too old!”
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