Be an Auction Talk Radio "Friend" on Myspace

Yeah, we know: all the really COOL kids are joining other social networking sites, bailing on Myspace quicker than Huckabee delegates joining the McCain train. But, hey, that just leaves more of their space for our space on Myspace, right?

As our path is re-dedicated to this site and its mission of bringing Auction Talk Radio to the airwaves, we recognize the potential benefit of a kind of "net-roots" community connection. We may be coming to this realization a bit late, but in some ways it is right on time. The same constraints of time and demands of our energies elsewhere that kept us away from this project these past months (addressed at some length in our most recent post) would have left us little time for any online social networking. Was it something we should have tried earlier on? So stipulated. It is, so to speak, a stone we left unturned.

Among the benefits we envision with a little ATR outpost on Myspace is the facilitation of dialog with you. We have striven to make this site one in which your input, comments, critique and commentary are easily facilitated, yet we also understand that offering you a chance to communicate with us when you're not, in effect, inside our business (a visitor) might simply be more comfortable for you. It also gives us a chance to visit your world and connect to what you do. Finding original content for this site, our podcasts and, eventually, our radio show, is one of the benefits we envision from such a connection.

To say that our Myspace page is under construction is the kind of prevarication you might expect to find in an election year, though not from a non-candidate for office. We haven't yet begun construction, trying as we are to strike the right balance between that task, our work-a-day lives, and getting this site re-launched. So be undisuaded by the lack of curb appeal and link up to us on Myspace.

Be among the first and we might even offer you a first-edition Auction Talk Radio t-shirt, though the awarding of such a gift is subject to various contingencies that might forestall the bestowing of same to some point in the future that we cannot yet predict and which might, in any event, require the use of resources which, at present, we have allocated elsewhere. (We're kidding about the t-shirt, but if we keep talking like that, maybe we ought to consider running for office.)