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Space InvaderRupert Murdoch's MySpace page.

Since News Corp. acquired networking site MySpace last year, Rupert Murdoch has been hailed as the old-media mogul who just might "get" the Internet. While he is expected to get much more of it via future acquisitions, you can't help but wonder—as Wired does this month—how the man behind Fox News will tame the wild Web. Murdoch says he doesn't want to change MySpace. But will MySpace change him?

Click here to visit Murdoch's own MySpace page.

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Jim Hanas is a New York-based freelance writer. He will totally add you at http://www.myspace.com/hanasiana.
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