Well....
It sure seems that all webmasters are interested in being the portal to the web and the myspace people have succeeded. Why not devote Library resources to participating in that environment? With appropriate expectations of who can be reached and what can be accomplished. As has been acknowledged, users taste will change, library "friends" will become uncool, and the use of a library myspace page may wane eventually, I'm guessing. If I understood it correctly, the idea of signing in as an individual rather than an institution, is weird, duplicitous, dishonest. Why should a library be party to that?
On the upside, creating an environment that authors - both professional and amateurs - can link to and share text and comments is neat. The video and audio is good too. Libraries can do more to hype the non print. And, for example, the KCLS links to audio and video all seem clunky to me.
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