What iPods can do for China.China's new Cultural Revolution will be driven from the bottom up, by podcasters with Apple's little iPods or competing players, not from the top down by Maoists with Little Red Books. Once prices come down for iPods, there wilt be a huge market in China for Chinese-Language podcasting Recording a non-music audio broadcast (news, sports, discussion, etc.) in the MP3 format for playback in a digital music player. See podcast. . Anyone can create and upload his or her own channel of video or audio content onto podcasting Web sites. And there are almost no barriers to entry, making it easy to spread information quickly. The podcasting revolution is going to explode (1) To break down an assembly into its component pieces. Contrast with implode. (2) To decompress data back to its original form. everywhere at once, thanks to the Web and free technology toots toots n. Slang Babe; sweetie. [Perhaps short for tootsie.] . That's why the next phase of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation is not going to be more Americanization, but more "Glocalization"--more and more local content made global. |
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